Asus - Intel Z270 could be compatible with Coffee lake

[FRlTZ]

Asus claims that there is no reason why Coffee Lake could not be compatible with Intel Z270 boards.

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[TheRandomness]

It’s not compatible due to the extra grounds and power pins that are required for Coffee lake, but aren’t wired in with Z270/Z170 boards. If a manufacturer were to come out with a sticker to apply to the bottom of a coffee lake CPU to essentially split the power and ground pins from the exist ones into the new pins, then such a CPU should work on those boards. However, Intel would not allow this. 

[Simon771]

Sure Intel could make CPU that would fir on Z270 motherboard.

But for some reason they want you to buy whole new platform.

[FRlTZ]

And I know this is due to Intel philosophy to have only 2 gen CPU's on a platform, but as things is going for Intel right now, this is a generally idiotic, stupid thing to do to make back crucial points from the Dragon of AMD.

 

Intel should have thought this a bit further in the distance, and perhaps make 2 versions of the CPU, one "old" compatible and one new, where, of course some of the futures will not work on the older motherboards, or perhaps, someone should take a challenge and create an adapter-board to have between cpu and motherboard

 

I am sure I read in the old days where you could get adapter block/boards for newer CPUs to work on older boards....