Use Skylake Xeon in B150 Gaming K4 Mobo

[Dhazrian]

Hi Everyone,

 

A few weeks ago i saw a video on Youtube in which Linus suggested that a Skylake Xeon chip would run on basically any Skylake mobo even if not officially supported. Can anyone else verify this?

[Herman Mcpootis]

no, it won't work. 

[PenPoint]

NOT COMPATIBLE AT ALL.

[Morgan MLGman]

5 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

no, it won't work. 

 

4 minutes ago, PenPoint said:

NOT COMPATIBLE AT ALL.

Why not? Xeon E3-1231v3 works in any Haswell mobo.

[Dhazrian]

it was on an official linus tech tips video. i think the title was "best cpu - intel edition" or something along those lines.

[PenPoint]

Just now, Morgan MLGman said:

 

Why not? Xeon E3-1231v3 works in any Haswell mobo.

What are you talking about?

In Skylake(7th) gen, Xeon E3 isn't compatible with normal chipsets(H110, B150, H170, Q170, Z170) and is only compatible with server chipsets(C232/C236).

[Morgan MLGman]

2 minutes ago, PenPoint said:

What are you talking about?

In Skylake(7th) gen, Xeon E3 isn't compatible with normal chipsets(H110, B150, H170, Q170, Z170) and is only compatible with server chipsets(C232/C236).

I mean that when a Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3 works in any Haswell mobo, why wouldn't a Skylake Xeon like that work in any Skylake mobo?

[PenPoint]

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I mean that when a Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3 works in any Haswell mobo, why wouldn't a Skylake Xeon like that work in any Skylake mobo?

Oh, got it. This is not for sure, but many people are supposing that due to the low profit Intel gets when they sell server-level stuffs, Intel changed their strategies as not to make Xeons compatible with normal chipsets.

[Dhazrian]

well according to what was said in the video the only feature that is really lost by doing so is the lack of ECC memory support based on your mobo.

[Herman Mcpootis]

16 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

 

Why not? Xeon E3-1231v3 works in any Haswell mobo.

intel cut support for consumer chipsets on skylake xeons; they don't boot in a consumer mobo IIRC.

[Dhazrian]

i need to contact Linus directly about this then

[SLAYR]

2 hours ago, Morgan MLGman said:

 

Why not? Xeon E3-1231v3 works in any Haswell mobo.

 

2 hours ago, herman mcpootis said:

intel cut support for consumer chipsets on skylake xeons; they don't boot in a consumer mobo IIRC.

Haswell was the only exception to E3 xeons on consumer chipsets, E3 v1, and v2 chips don't work on consumer lga 1156 boards without the "c" chipset.

 

(There are some instances on older e3s working on consumer boards, but it is a specific board/cpu combo, and there isn't a lot of work done to find what chips work on what boards.)

[Herman Mcpootis]

4 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

 

Haswell was the only exception to E3 xeons on consumer chipsets, E3 v1, and v2 chips don't work on consumer lga 1156 boards without the "c" chipset.

 

(There are some instances on older e3s working on consumer boards, but it is a specific board/cpu combo, and there isn't a lot of work done to find what chips work on what boards.)

only skylake xeons don't work with consumer mobos, all other sockets work fine. 

[typographie]

3 hours ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I mean that when a Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3 works in any Haswell mobo, why wouldn't a Skylake Xeon like that work in any Skylake mobo?

Because Intel chose to do it differently this generation, I guess. Perhaps they felt their Xeon E3s needed further differentiation from their i7's. Maybe the Haswell Xeon E3's ate into sales of the i7-4770/4790.

 

Officially the Skylake Xeons require the C232 or C236 chipsets, but I don't know that they don't work unofficially with mainstream chipsets. It's not a stretch to say Linus may know something about this we don't, though I won't be betting my own money on it.

[incarnate]

2 hours ago, Dhazrian said:

well according to what was said in the video the only feature that is really lost by doing so is the lack of ECC memory support based on your mobo.

You need to rewatch that video. He said that they MIGHT work in SOME boards even if the compatibility isn't listed. He never said it would work in every board