Thursday, August 3rd 2017
Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Will Require New Motherboards
A motherboard maker's official Twitter feed has just confirmed what we all had an inkling to believe already: Intel's upcoming Coffee Lake architecture, which promises the first major change in Intel's line-up strategy, won't be compatible with existing motherboards and chipsets. Now, granted, companies' official Twitter feeds may sometimes be open to failures or miscommunication from the account operator at the time of writing, but still, the company hasn't doubled back on the original posting.
This does make slightly more sense than other times where Intel didn't offer support for a new generation of its processors in a past chipset. However, this does confirm that Intel users are again left without an upgrade path for the top-of-the-line Intel solutions they may have acquired already. If you purchased an i7-7700K and were expecting to upgrade to an Intel six-core next round, you'll have to rethink that strategy, and your budget, to include a new motherboard with a new chipset (expectedly, Z370.)
Source:
via Tom's Hardware
This does make slightly more sense than other times where Intel didn't offer support for a new generation of its processors in a past chipset. However, this does confirm that Intel users are again left without an upgrade path for the top-of-the-line Intel solutions they may have acquired already. If you purchased an i7-7700K and were expecting to upgrade to an Intel six-core next round, you'll have to rethink that strategy, and your budget, to include a new motherboard with a new chipset (expectedly, Z370.)
48 Comments on Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Will Require New Motherboards
meh :P
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/looks-like-intels-8700k-6-core-coffee-lake-might-be-quite-a-beast.235430/page-7#post-3703556
as said this is making me look at amd and their new chips more than anything :|
Nice avatar btw :laugh:
So the leaked Coffee Lake benchmarks tested on a Kabey Lake motherboard are fake or is ASRock lying?
ranker.sisoftware.net/show_run.php?q=c2ffcfe988e9d4ecddefd6e5d3f587ba8badc8ad90a086f5c8f0&l=en
never tried to hide the fact that i have a personal preference to amd, they have historically been the more innovative company while intel have been doing shady shit since before i even cared about the parts inside my pc :D
just never been daft enough to give any kind of blind loyalty to any company, my bottom line is what i care about most :D
amd copied my name for their gpu too :lol:
There were also some talks, about Cannonlake needing the x390 chipset. No idea really, the whole thing is a complete mess as it stands now. As it stands now, Cannonlake being scheduled for Q1/18 with no guarantee it will work on Z370, I wouldn’t touch Coffee Lake till we know more about their 2018 plans.
Honestly, the chipset is quite a mayor let down for me. It’s essentially a marginally upgraded Z270, which is already a marginally upgraded Z170.
(everyone will probably ignore this and keep stirring the drama)
Coffee Lake Not Supported by Intel’s 200-Series Motherboards
www.anandtech.com/show/11687/coffee-lake-not-supported-by-intels-200series-motherboards
The only hope is that all new games will be optimized for Ryzen as well, but unfortunately no big games have come out since its launch.
So im in on your cash grab theory ,defo , and par for intels course.
Also a pretty blatant flap since amds x370 and x399 are clearly miles better to a dumb punter going by naming convention alone.
Seams like a undercounter back hander to Oem's to me.
Rubbish six core 1600 trails the fastest mainstream CPU by a whopping (min) 8fps, clock for clock, I bet 4k is even closer!