Tuesday, September 19th 2017
7th Gen Core "Kaby Lake" Won't Work on 300-series Chipset Motherboards
The upcoming Intel 300-series chipset, and LGA1151 socket continues to be a source of chaos for PC builders. While the 100-series and 200-series chipset based motherboards support both 6th generation Core "Skylake," and 7th generation Core "Kaby Lake" processors, they will not support the upcoming 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" chips. What's more, the upcoming 300-series chipset motherboards, which were earlier believed to feature backwards-compatibility for "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake" chips, will not support them, according to a Hardware.info report.
The LGA1151 socket between the two platforms remains unchanged, down to the package notches, which are designed to prevent you from installing a processor on an incompatible motherboard (eg: LGA1150 processors on LGA1151 motherboards). This isn't even a case like the incompatibility between LGA2011 and LGA2011v3, where the latter features DDR4 memory I/O, compared to the former's DDR3. Platform segmentation, and synthetically keeping up with a product development cycle, by forcing people to upgrade motherboards every two generations, appears to be Intel's primary motivation. The Hardware.info report, however, doesn't rule out the possibility of 300-series chipset motherboards getting support for older LGA1151 processors in the future, through BIOS updates.
Source:
Hardware.info
The LGA1151 socket between the two platforms remains unchanged, down to the package notches, which are designed to prevent you from installing a processor on an incompatible motherboard (eg: LGA1150 processors on LGA1151 motherboards). This isn't even a case like the incompatibility between LGA2011 and LGA2011v3, where the latter features DDR4 memory I/O, compared to the former's DDR3. Platform segmentation, and synthetically keeping up with a product development cycle, by forcing people to upgrade motherboards every two generations, appears to be Intel's primary motivation. The Hardware.info report, however, doesn't rule out the possibility of 300-series chipset motherboards getting support for older LGA1151 processors in the future, through BIOS updates.
53 Comments on 7th Gen Core "Kaby Lake" Won't Work on 300-series Chipset Motherboards
This is the biggest middle finger to the average consumer that Intel could possibly make.
They are showing that despite AMD's new offerings and competition, Intel doesn't give 2 #$%$s!. It is almost CERTAIN that Intel could support Coffee Lake on Z270 if they so desired, without much effort. Instead, they would rather make money and hide behind the IDEA that they used to force consumers to upgrade, because of significant advances in technology.
I suggest the 'average consumer' should vote with their money. If you need a new motherboard to upgrade to a CPU REPACKAGE (despite it being on the identical socket - an unprecedented move) - then move across to an AMD platform when you do. Their Threadripper processors are brilliant AND value-for-money.
To Intel: Go. 2. Hell.
Edit: I spent $1500 upgrading a few months back, ensuring I had 32Gb DDR4 3866mhz, Thunderbolt 3 and the latest Intel chipset in anticipation of their re-re-release of their 14nm line in more than just a quad-core configuration (2007 says Hello, Intel). In the meantime I grabbed a G4560. Seems Intel has arbitrarily shafted me and short-circuited my otherwise intelligent purchasing decision. May AMD bring it to them.
Yours Sincerely,
Psinet
However, this should at least have been done so the 300 series chipset was backwards compatible with the 6000 and 7000 series CPUs, if it really is the case.
P.S. And yes, i am buying only AMD cpus since 1998.
Anyway we will just have to wait to find out if Z370 indeed drops support for sky and kaby.
I'm just saying I'd rather get both products from AMD if I switch. I like the whole package, but I'm not going to bother until it's all available at will.
You also thought that coffee lake would be such a major improvement, unlike ivy bridge, haswell, broadwell, skylake, and kaby lake, that you bought a tin-plated pentium to go with this $1500 machine rather then just buying the good chip now :roll:
And, despite thinking AMD's newest platform is great, you bought an intel platform anyway, then complain when intel bends you over the barrel?o_O :slap:
Yeah, good job there bud. Intel doesn't give 2 #$%$s! because consumers like you will blindly buy their stuff.
I guess this is at least discussion worthy but take a deep breath folks. Who gives a flying fart about forcing a Kaby processor into a Z370 motherboard?
It's so pointless I don't even want to explain. It's just my OCD, if you will. My gravitation to having some neatness in having two big parts from the same brand.
Why anyone gets confrontational about that, I don't know. The fact that I even consider it should make an AMD fan happy... but apparently that's not good enough. It's "come to us right now or you're just a damn sheep". This is insanity.