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8th gen i7 in ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO?

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Thanks for all the help, I just avoided a very costly mistake xD

I decided to go with the ASUS PRIME Z370-A, which has a Z370 chipset.

Hi

I want to buy an i7-8700K, but it ti not compatible with my mobo, so I'll have to get a new mobo too. The one I want to buy is an Asus Maximus VIII HERO, but looking at the specs, it looks like it only supports 6th and 7th gen CPUs.

 

My question is that are the specs outdated, is the Asus Maximus VIII HERO actually incompatible with an 8th gen CPU?

 

Thanks in advance.

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If it's not a Z370/H370/B360 board, it's not compatible with the 8700K.

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Hmm, no they do not supports Coffee Lake, as they use a different kind of sockets (LGA 1151v2). But technically you COULD use that motherboard to run Coffee Lake chips, and I have seen guys out there done it before. But that would require a lot of BIOS tweaking, and might potentially brick your mobo. Why not push out and get a Maximus IX Hero?

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1 minute ago, CapitalistVN said:

Hmm, no they do not supports Coffee Lake, as they use a different kind of sockets (LGA 1151v2). But technically you COULD use that motherboard to run Coffee Lake chips, and I have seen guys out there done it before. But that would require a lot of BIOS tweaking, and might potentially brick your mobo. Why not push out and get a Maximus IX Hero?

Maximus IX Hero is a Z270 board, OP would want the Maximus X Hero. Good ol' ASUS and their naming schemes.

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2 minutes ago, CapitalistVN said:

Hmm, no they do not supports Coffee Lake, as they use a different kind of sockets (LGA 1151v2). But technically you COULD use that motherboard to run Coffee Lake chips, and I have seen guys out there done it before. But that would require a lot of BIOS tweaking, and might potentially brick your mobo. Why not push out and get a Maximus IX Hero?

Not even BIOS tweaking, you need a completely different modded BIOS.

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1 minute ago, TheSLSAMG said:

Maximus IX Hero is a Z270 board, OP would want the Maximus X Hero. Good ol' ASUS and their naming schemes.

Oh yeah lol

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1 hour ago, CapitalistVN said:

Hmm, no they do not supports Coffee Lake, as they use a different kind of sockets (LGA 1151v2). But technically you COULD use that motherboard to run Coffee Lake chips, and I have seen guys out there done it before. But that would require a lot of BIOS tweaking, and might potentially brick your mobo. Why not push out and get a Maximus IX Hero?

The only CPUs you can tweek a Z170 or Z270 to run that are Coffee lake are the Pentium and i3s. Anything with 6 cores is off the table. You're basically running a Coffee Lake i3, as a Kaby Lake i5. That's how you pull it off. 

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