By Darren Allan
It seems that people who are looking forward to getting themselves a (rumored) mainstream processor with six-cores from Intel, courtesy of the incoming next-gen Coffee Lake CPUs, won’t be able to drop the chip straight into their existing motherboard – they’ll need to buy an entirely new one.
The bad news for those mulling a processor upgrade to Coffee Lake came via Twitter from motherboard manufacturer ASRock, in a tweet which appears to have subsequently been pulled down.
As Wccftech.com spotted, a customer queried whether these new CPUs would be compatible with an existing 200-series ASRock motherboard, and the company replied: “Coffee Lake CPU is not compatible with 200 series motherboards.”
Short and to the point. This is despite the fact that Coffee Lake chips are said to use the LGA 1151 socket as found on the 200-series motherboards.
Somewhere to pin the blame
According to Wccftech, the reason for the lack of support for the new processors is that they will effectively require an LGA 1151 socket ‘version 2′ with a slightly different pin configuration.
While this can’t be taken as gospel at this point, we have seen a couple of other reports around the net citing sources confirming …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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