I Fucked Up

[UnitedMonkey]

So I just built this pc! I thought I did the necessary research but I didn't I forgot one thing! That there is a difference between 8th gen and 7 gen CPU's! so I got a 7th generation CPU and put it on an 8th/9th generation motherboard! and in my last post, the guy said that one of them will most likely be fired! so now I have to identify which one it is! so the mother still has all the light working on it and also was still turning the fans on when I pressed power and everything! But it just shuts off after like 1 -2 seconds running! SO my question is if I put an 8700 in the motherboard will that tell me if the boards fucked or will that just fry the new CPU as well! and what should I do to fix this situation!

 

Thank you for your help in Advance!!

 

Oh and just to be clear it was an I7 7700 into an Asus Rog Strix z390-e motherboard! I know

 

 

[Windows7ge]

This doesn't make sense to me. Assuming you didn't force the CPU into the socket as it is a ZIF socket even if the CPU is incompatible it just wont POST it shouldn't fry anything unless you did something horrifically wrong.

 

Or is Intel dumb enough to not think of this when designing their modern platforms?

[Fasauceome]

The CPU likely won't be damaged by the motherboard if something went awry with the 7th gen CPU.

[alex75871]

Why would it fry? I don't understand. Sure it won't post, but that's to be expected. No different to putting incorrect or defective memory in your system.

[eira]

I doubt anything is damaged.

All that will happen in this situation is that the system will not post, but that's about it.

Putting a 7th gen CPU into a Z390 board won't damage anything (except if you force the CPU into the socket, but that sort of damage can happen to any CPU/motherboard).

The issue you've described sounds like normal behaviour to me, it's just the motherboard refusing to boot with an incompatible CPU.

[LukeLinusFanFic]

7700 non k on a z motherboard? Try and sell that chip for even an i5 8600k - there was a majour leap in performance that year.

[Spotty]

Using a 7th gen chip in an 8th gen board shouldn't cause any issues or anything to "fry". It simply won't work and the system won't boot.
The incompatibility between 7th gen and 8th gen is a rather soft limitation as well. There have been people who have managed to get 8th gen CPUs to work on Z270 boards through BIOS mods. So unless something went wrong elsewhere, such as damaged pins, it shouldn't cause any damage to either the motherboard or the CPU.

Z390 motherboards will be compatible with 8th and 9th gen Intel CPUs. Since the i7 7700 is a few years old now and is easily outperformed by the faster, higher core count 8th and 9th gen CPUs, you should look at selling the i7 7700 CPU and purchasing an 8th or 9th gen CPU such as the 8700k or 9700k.
The Z370/Z390 motherboards are unlocked for overclocking and if you want to overclock your CPU you will also need to get a K series CPU ('i7 8700k' for example)

[Stefan Payne]

2 hours ago, UnitedMonkey said:

Oh and just to be clear it was an I7 7700 into an Asus Rog Strix z390-e motherboard! I know

Doesn't work because its software locked.

Electrically the socket is still the same, nothing changed there.

 

So nothing got damaged.

[jerubedo]

As others have already stated, nothing would have been damaged by putting the 7700K into that board and turning it on. The only way anything would have been damaged is if you did something physically wrong.

[UnitedMonkey]

On 5/8/2019 at 2:25 PM, Windows7ge said:

This doesn't make sense to me. Assuming you didn't force the CPU into the socket as it is a ZIF socket even if the CPU is incompatible it just wont POST it shouldn't fry anything unless you did something horrifically wrong.

 

Or is Intel dumb enough to not think of this when designing their modern platforms?

nah so the sockets are the same both LGA 1151 so it was a really snug fit like usual! but just my last post the person said one part will be damaged

but by what you two are saying I have nothing to worry about?

 

@Windows7ge @XR6

[eira]

On 5/8/2019 at 12:29 PM, UnitedMonkey said:

nah so the sockets are the same both LGA 1151 so it was a really snug fit like usual! but just my last post the person said one part will be damaged

but by what you two are saying I have nothing to worry about?

 

@Windows7ge @XR6

Yeah, there's nothing to worry about. Unless you forced the CPU into the socket (which I doubt you did), there's no way you could've damaged something.