By Darren Allan
We knew as early as last August that Intel’s Coffee Lake processors would not run on older 200-series motherboards – and would only play nice with Intel’s new Z370 chipset – but now it has emerged that modders have managed to get the CPUs working with older mobos.
The story here is that while Intel’s 8th-gen processors are compatible with the pins on an older LGA 1151 socket motherboard – i.e. Intel’s Z270 or Z170 motherboards – they won’t officially work thanks to slight differences on the power front (due to changes Intel made rejigging some reserved pins to support the power demands of the fresh six-core CPUs that arrived with Coffee Lake).
Not to be deterred by the official line, the aforementioned modders have been trying to get the new processors working in these older motherboards, and have apparently now succeeded with both Z270 and Z170-based products.
This collective effort is detailed in a post on the Overclock.net forums, and it involves a lot of technical wizardry such as tweaking the processor’s microcode and integrated GPU drivers, and getting around the blocks put in place by Intel’s Management Engine.
The end result was success with a Core i3-8300 …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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