Biostar Motherboard Manual Reveals Existence of Intel Z390 Chipset

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/10/2018 02:35 PM | source: | 5 comment(s)

We've talked and heard quite a bit about the Intel Z390 chipset, would it ever be released, and if so when? Well, Biostar pretty much just confirmed that as they made a bit of a booboo.

So basically, lots of motherboard manufacturers make the same motherboard manual for fairly similar motherboards. Biostar made a B360GT3S manual, but it's also intended for the Z390GT3. How would you know? Well, the cover reveals everything I'd say ;)

Yeah, as PC games hardware spotted, that kinda makes the Z390-PCH chipset confirmed eh? Z390 has been discussed a lot, it should be a chipset intended for 8-core Coffee Lake CPUs.

The Biostar manuals have now confirmed that Intel and its board partners are planning to release a new flagship series motherboard for mainstream. In the manual still downloadable from Biostar btw, ( Download as Zip) Biostar calls a maximum CPU TDP of 95 watts for the board design, indicating that IF there would be an 8-core part, it would have a 95W TDP. The manual does disclose that this chipset can overclock, other than that there is no other information that would be helpful.

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#5536456 Posted on: 04/10/2018 02:42 PM

OPP'S!

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#5536465 Posted on: 04/10/2018 03:13 PM

New socket already? :p

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#5536466 Posted on: 04/10/2018 03:23 PM

Taken from the manual:

Active Processor Cores
This item allows you to set up number of cores to enable in each processor package.
Options: All (Default) / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

Implies no 8 core CPU at launch.

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#5536492 Posted on: 04/10/2018 05:12 PM

Taken from the manual:

Implies no 8 core CPU at launch.

Z390 pretty much IMPLIES a new cpu coming out.

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#5536695 Posted on: 04/11/2018 03:19 PM

So just "new chipset/motherboards" will support 8-core, Intel is joking again... lol

grettings

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