Coffee lake

[Zaydoon]

Is there anyone has an idea about whether future coffee lake cpu wI'll work on z170 motherboards as I heard that they have the same socket. Thanx

 

[Princess Luna]

It is likely it won't but nothing is confirmed as for yet.

[HKZeroFive]

Nothing's confirmed yet. People are claiming it won't though.

[Anghammarad]

There are rumors that it is a completely new socket... so no... no 17x or 27x boards...

 

This will be in line with the last upgrades as well...

 

the 6x and 7x chipset for 2xxx and 3xxx, then the 8x and 9x chipset for 4xxx, the 1xx and 2xx for 6xxx and 7xxx series...

[EOZ]

Yes there are a good possibility that intel will support older LGA1151 motherboards because of good competition between AMD and Intel.

[lsstefan]

My beef with this is that after CFL Intel goes down to 10 nm, so that requires a new socket, or that's what my limited knowledge is saying. If that's the case, CFL will require separate mobos for just 1 generation of CPUs. I know tick tock is no more, but still, people have to upgrade 200-300 $ motherboards so that they can have the next gen CPU?

That's greedy...even for Intel...

[MyName13]

24 minutes ago, lsstefan said:

My beef with this is that after CFL Intel goes down to 10 nm, so that requires a new socket, or that's what my limited knowledge is saying. If that's the case, CFL will require separate mobos for just 1 generation of CPUs. I know tick tock is no more, but still, people have to upgrade 200-300 $ motherboards so that they can have the next gen CPU?

That's greedy...even for Intel...

People who spend hundreds of dollars on motherboards certainly won't damage their budget by buying a new motherboard every 2-3 years.

[Zaydoon]

Anyone invest in a desktop put in his/her mind that this machine is  modular but intel force the community to consider laptops because of changing sockets and chips at the expense of performance. Every change made will cost an owner of a pc about 60 to 70% of the total desktop cost and even in the future coffee lake even though the socket has the same parameters still it may be inoperable in last two gen mobos.

[sanfilippo12]

I was thinking about doing my first (budget) build with an i5 7500 and a B250 motherboard, but now I'm waiting for Coffee Lake before I buy parts.

When the Coffee Lake i5 8500 comes about, do you think it will work with a B250, or no?

 

The reason I ask is I found a B250 that I really like (MSI B250M Mortar Arctic), and I would like to still use it with Coffee Lake if possible.

 

I keep seeing people talk about Z170 and Z270 motherboards' possible compatibility with Coffee Lake, but I haven't heard anything about the B's or H's.  (Sorry if the answer is obvious, I'm still new to building).