Intel Z370 Chipset Could Support Kaby Lake - But Intel Will Not Allow It

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/22/2017 09:15 PM | source: | 52 comment(s)

Much has been said and spoken about Intel upcoming 6-core Coffee Lake processors. It will launch based on a LGA 1151 Socket. We’ve been able to confirm that Z370 will only support Coffee Lake processors. Here’s the shocker, they could support Kaby Lake, yet Intel doesn’t allow it.

Over the past few weeks I have been talking to many motherboard manufacturers, and the story is the same. There is no reason for the Z370 chipset to not be able to support last-gen Kaby Lake, it is merely firmware restriction. Intel is enforcing the motherboard manufacturers to only support Intel 8th gen processors, thus Coffee Lake on Z370.

We’ve seen it in the past though, a BIOS update all of the sudden might enable other processors. The board-partners are very tight-lipped about this, understandably. Earlier this week you have already seen our Dutch colleagues from HWI try out a 7th gen Celeron G3930 Kaby Lake based processor on Z370. That processor got in the BIOS post code up-to code 26 when it halted. Post code 26 is the graphics pass, all passes before that would have been valid including memory and CPU.

According to some board partners the extra pins used on Z370 are merely supported voltage pahs. Ergo, (but not confirmed) perhapsvice versa Coffee lake could have been supported on Z270 as well. But this last bit remains speculation of course. But the reality is, that other processors than Coffee Lake on LGA1151 could have been supported on Z370, yet Intel simply will not allow board partners to support them.

New info also shows that the new 6-core procs can do an all-core 5 GHz overclock on a proper air cooler / liquid cooling without too much complication.

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Robbo9999
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#5475020 Posted on: 09/24/2017 08:12 AM

they are electronics it can happen to anyone really , on the other hand mine was not a normal occasion since i went on holidays 1 month unaware that the water heater above the room was leaking water so leaving my house sealed for a month the room and the pc included ended up covered in mold ..... i was surprised after the cleaning it was still working but the motherboard died a bit after , still electronics have failures even the top quality ones

Ah yes, acts of God can happen! Pity that Z370 won't be compatible with older CPUs for the the unluckies amoungst us.

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#5475399 Posted on: 09/25/2017 02:00 PM

1. person A says he is withholding information
2. person B says person A should not withhold information
3. person C defends person A by saying that NDA's are a thing
4. person B says that NDA's are mostly used by companies to hide facts, often illegal and harmful to the customer and/or others hence NDA's are not a good thing for anyone but the company enforcing them
5. person D then goes to say that you cannot compare industries because one of them is producing "first world cancerous products" and another one is producing "first world electronics"
6. person B then goes to say that "first world electronics" does not mean something is absolutely free of harm or wrongdoing by default just because it is "first world" or "electronics" or "first world electronics" and provides an example

so no, nowhere has been said that "Hilberts NDA is contribution to 3rd world slave labor abuse" but that NDA's are pretty shady thing used in shady ways which they generally are... plenty of NDA's are "contribution to 3rd world slave labor abuse"... this one tho, no, not rly.

is it a "douchy" NDA? most are.
Hilbert did nothing wrong. And yet you are still criticizing him. Like I said before if you do not like it here then leave no one is forcing you to stay.

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