i3 8350K Coffee Lake on a Z170 Motherboard

[mr moose]

52 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Can I also point out that to my knowledge Intel have never actually said 8000 CPUs couldn't work on older chipsets, they said that it won't but they didn't say it couldn't.

 

It was a few individuals from this forum telling everyone it wouldn't work because pin changes and power delivery issues and that got parroted back so much it became an internet fact. A little bit like how the 9000 series having 8 cores has already been mentioned in this very thread like it's a fact when at this point it's nothing more than a single unverified source rumour.

 

IKR,  Unfortunately when people read something that supports their feels they take it to the level of fact and we spend an eternity debunking.  It is the internet equivalent of old wives tales. 

[Tom Cat]

7 hours ago, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

Considering Intel's market share that grain of sand is actually the desert.

I hope you realise what you just said was stupid. Intel as a company, not your pc building bubble. Intel make some of the most expensive processors and servers in the world for big company's. Most of the time there not cheap. Artificial intelgance research isn't cheap. So what if you have to buy another motherboard, people on AMD's platform are probably going to but x470 when it comes out. Also do you even know what the market share is AMD mostly like doesn't  even have 30%.

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[TidaLWaveZ]

17 hours ago, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

Not much of a surprise, we knew that Covfefe works on 100 and 200 series mobos, but Intel are greedy a-holes that use excuses of power delivery to force people who already bought a 100 or 200 series mobo to buy a new one. Cause:

In other words intel is a "business"

[Tom Cat]

2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

In other words intel is a "business"

I really hope your joking. 

[TidaLWaveZ]

3 minutes ago, Douglas The Duck said:

I really hope your joking. 

you're*

[Tom Cat]

4 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

you're*

So your that type of guy, huh.

[TidaLWaveZ]

Just now, Douglas The Duck said:

So your that type of guy, huh.

lol, what the type of guy who spells correctly?

[Tom Cat]

Just now, TidaLWaveZ said:

lol, what the type of guy who spells correctly?

Tell me, why wouldn't Intel be a "business"

[TidaLWaveZ]

11 minutes ago, Douglas The Duck said:

Tell me, why wouldn't Intel be a "business"

I think you're misunderstanding

 

I'm saying that the original description,  

 

"greedy a-holes.. force people who already bought... to buy a new one."

 

basically defines modern business, especially when it comes to tech/hardware.

 

 

My quotations were not meant to be satirical.

 

[Tom Cat]

4 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

I think you're misunderstanding

 

I'm saying that the original description,  

 

"greedy a-holes.. force people who already bought... to buy a new one."

 

basically defines modern business.

 

 

My quotations were not meant to be satirical.

 

Intel may be greedy to some, but I think people fail to realise that Intel really doesn't profit a lot from motherboard sales. 

Me personally I'll spend money on a new board every year. However I'm going to wait till ice lake (10th gen) because like I said before, I rather get a quality product, because weather people like it or not, Intel makes quality. Heck they pioneered the processor.

[ARikozuM]

So many anti-Intel evangelists in here, too many damn targets and fighting over a high-end board working with a quad-core. In other news, Pentiums are now hyper-threaded!

 

I don't see why we're making this a big deal. Asus can say whatever they want, but they aren't making any strides to change the BIOS to accept CFL on Z170/270 boards. I'd also like to see these guys get the hexa-cores up and working or at least getting the PCIe slot and iGPU working with the quad-core, unless we're settling for the "I told you so [asterisk] *May or may not be fully functional as designed"... 

[Drak3]

17 hours ago, mr moose said:

Doesn't anyone read anything anymore?

 

 

 

 

I didn't even read this reply.

 

 

Kappa.

[TidaLWaveZ]

29 minutes ago, Douglas The Duck said:

Intel may be greedy to some, but I think people fail to realise that Intel really doesn't profit a lot from motherboard sales. 

Me personally I'll spend money on a new board every year. However I'm going to wait till ice lake (10th gen) because like I said before, I rather get a quality product, because weather people like it or not, Intel makes quality. Heck they pioneered the processor.

I agree, basically the point of my original comment.

 

The truth is that AMD would use the same business tactics but they can't because they have to use anything they can as a selling point to stay afloat in the market.

 

I don't particularly dislike AMD but the idea that they aren't greedy or just another business is ridiculous.

[pas008]

28 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

So many anti-Intel evangelists in here, too many damn targets and fighting over a high-end board working with a quad-core. In other news, Pentiums are now hyper-threaded!

 

I don't see why we're making this a big deal. Asus can say whatever they want, but they aren't making any strides to change the BIOS to accept CFL on Z170/270 boards. I'd also like to see these guys get the hexa-cores up and working or at least getting the PCIe slot and iGPU working with the quad-core, unless we're settling for the "I told you so [asterisk] *May or may not be fully functional as designed"... 

not to mention nothing said on turbo boost and all instructions and extensions working also which is what makes intel cpu an intel cpu

[Matu20]

Eeh, confirms what was already public knowledge.

[aisle9]

22 hours ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

All Coffee Lake CPU's  have to have a 300 series chipset board for it to work. 

That, clearly, is not true...

[PETRGangKing]

5 hours ago, Douglas The Duck said:

Intel may be greedy to some, but I think people fail to realise that Intel really doesn't profit a lot from motherboard sales. 

Me personally I'll spend money on a new board every year. However I'm going to wait till ice lake (10th gen) because like I said before, I rather get a quality product, because weather people like it or not, Intel makes quality. Heck they pioneered the processor.

I thought they said Ice Lake would be 9th gen?

 

5 hours ago, Douglas The Duck said:

So your that type of guy, huh.

You're*

[mr moose]

6 hours ago, Drak3 said:

I didn't even read this reply.

 

 

Kappa.

where's the snarky self informed rebuttal? 

[NumLock21]

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The seemingly impossible (as per Intel) has happened: an Intel Z170 motherboard was made to support Intel's latest Core i3-8350K. This news comes after various reports and counter reports went for and against this being actually viable, according to motherboard socket pin count and function allocation. That this happened not on a Z270 motherboard, but on a Z170, really does serve to open our eyes as customers to what sort of games might be being played by tech companies in product refreshes and new motherboard chipsets.

A Baidu user has posted some picture of their MSI Z170 motherboard successfully running a Intel Core i3 8350K coffeelake CPU. The process was achieved by using a modified bios and changes to the microcode. While the cpu does work on the Z170 chipset, the modified bios still have some bugs like primary PCIe slot and integrated graphics are not working.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/239399/msi-z170a-xpower-titanium-modded-supports-intel-core-i3-8350k

 

[SansVarnic]

Interesting... and well done.

[Suika]

Wake me up once a user gets a six core running on these boards, otherwise there's no new information and everybody is just going to start hate mongering.

[DarkBlade2117]

If an i7-8700k can work on a Z170 board, it might be my future CPU here in a few years to save money from upgrading mobo ect. 

That is, unless Zen+ or the next lineup of Intel CPUs are really good

[Arika]

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successfully running 

is a bit of a stretch.

 

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as such, there are some bugs still to iron out, such as the IGP not functioning, and the primary PCIe slot being unavailable

 

[Guest]

Just now, VegetableStu said:

wait, if the x16 slot doesn't work and the IGP doesn't work, how does one use a monitor off that setup? o_o

It mentions the primary x16 slot doesn't work. You can choose another X16 slot or use X1 etc.

[Froody129]

That's great... but we need 6 cores for this to matter at all