I have a meh motherboard with a lga1151 socket and a i7 7700 (non k) and i wanted to know if i could upgrade to a i7 9700k without changing it out

[OwayBaway]

oh and one more thing can i over clock with that cooler and mobo

[SavageNeo]

I would go AMD if you can get their new cpus form somewhere

[SavageNeo]

3 minutes ago, Projekt8276-1 said:

oh and one more thing can i over clock with that cooler and mobo

no

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

7 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

I would go AMD if you can get their new cpus form somewhere

This would look like this:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$309.98 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition 42 CFM CPU Cooler	$33.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$114.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$458.96
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-08 11:39 EST-0500

 

This would be the best option for performance and value, but the 5600X is not easy to find right now.

 

Edit:

You don't strictly need a cooler for this, since the included one is pretty good. So you could do this at first and upgrade the cooler later if you choose:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$309.98 @ Newegg
Motherboard	ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$114.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$424.97
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-08 11:46 EST-0500

 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Just now, SavageNeo said:

no

There were two options that I listed

 

The 9700f option cannot be overclocked.

 

The 10600K option can be overclocked.

[OwayBaway]

thank you sooo much for ur help i will prob go with the 10500k or the ryzen based one, my old 7700 has served me well, but i think it is time to upgrade lol

[MageTank]

20 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

It doesn't matter. If you've got a system with 7th gen then all it supports is 7th and 8th 6th and 7th.

 

20 minutes ago, Lurick said:

7000 and 6000 series use 200 and 100 chipsets respectively and are NOT compatible with the 300 series chipsets that support 8000 and 9000 series CPUs or vice versa. It doesn't matter what model board or chipset.

I mean, depending on how much effort OP wants to invest, it can be done, but it's no easy task, lol.

 

https://community.hwbot.org/topic/175489-asrock-z170-mocf-lives-on-coffee-lake-mods/

 

You'll need a silver pen (or a decent pencil with a graphite core if you are cheap and lazy like I am), some solder & wire if your board requires the post-bypass shenanigans, and a custom BIOS for the board you are trying to use. The last one might be the hardest to procure, so be very mindful of that.

 

I'd say that the chipsets themselves were not a limiting factor in CFL's compatibility with previous generation 1151 boards, but rather Intel's artificial limiting of compatibility for no real objective reasoning. Had we seen a revision to PCIe lanes being supplied from the CPU to the chipset, or the addition of controllers that would require additional lanes or hardware support that the CPU's couldn't provide, sure, I'd buy the excuse that a new chipset was needed, but Z370 was a joke and really shouldn't have existed in my opinion.

 

TL:DR? Both of you are right if we are talking generic support, but I wouldn't say it's not possible. You can get it to work on a myriad of boards with enough effort, it's just questionable as to whether the effort is actually worth it. 

 

@Projekt8276-1 I'd follow the advice others are giving and simply upgrade platforms. You'll be better off in the long run, as these pre-built OEM boards are not designed to last and are quite limited on platform features that you may find beneficial from a quality of life perspective.