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Coffee Lake now works on Intel 100/200 Series motherboards with mods

Yeah saw it at win-raid.com a couple days ago.

Looks to be another artificial limit to milk customers. Not surprised if true.
 
Power/ground pins are in different locations, overlap is not 100%. Z370 has additional power delivery pins. Attempt at your own risk.
 
This is something that puzzles me, if this was possible what was the point of having to improvise the Z370 boards only to be overtaken this year with Z390 and other chipsets anyway?

They could have released bios upgrades for Z270 and call it a day, they still sell the chipset anyway what it matter if its called Z270 or Z370?

Maybe, just maybe the 8100 is not CFL and its KBL? and thats why it works? the KBL/CFL pinout is not the same.
 
Shivansps said:
This is something that puzzles me, if this was possible what was the point of having to improvise the Z370 boards only to be overtaken this year with Z390 and other chipsets anyway?

They could have released bios upgrades for Z270 and call it a day, they still sell the chipset anyway what it matter if its called Z270 or Z370?

Maybe, just maybe the 8100 is not CFL and its KBL? and thats why it works? the KBL/CFL pinout is not the same.
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Slightly modified Kaby Lake. 6 core CPUs supposedly are not working with 100/200 chipsets. And those are actually new CPUs - the Coffee Lake.
 
Glo. said:
Slightly modified Kaby Lake. 6 core CPUs supposedly are not working with 100/200 chipsets. And those are actually new CPUs - the Coffee Lake.
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So the 8100 is actually KBL? this make less sence to me now, they did not need to launch the 8100 at all.
 
Shivansps said:
So the 8100 is actually KBL? this make less sence to me now, they did not need to launch the 8100 at all.
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I was the one who started the rumor of the 8100 / 8350K just being Kaby Lake in disguise. I don't have physical core image proof of it. But, all the circumstantial evidence points to the 8100 / 8350K just being a repackaged Kaby Lake and not an actual Coffee Lake chip.
  • The 8100 / 8350K have 4 cores which match Kaby Lake and not the other Coffee Lake CPUs.
  • The 8100 / 8350K have max DDR-2400 memory which match Kaby Lake and not the other Coffee Lake CPUs.
  • The 8100 / 8350K have 6 MB / 8 MB L3 cache which match Kaby Lake and not the other Coffee Lake CPUs.
  • Even the more minor aspects such as TDP, allowable GPU speeds, etc. all match Kaby Lake and not the other Coffee Lake CPUs.
  • Intel has even come out and said that they are no longer linking model numbers (8000) with architecture any more (could be Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Ice Lake, etc).
So the circumstantial evidence all points to the i3 Coffee Lake chips just being repackaged Kaby Lake CPUs. The 8350K is almost identical to the 7600K with the exception of the clock rate is just pegged at the 7600K quad core turbo speed with no extra turbo. The 8100 is almost identical to the 7500 with the exception of the clock rate is just pegged at the 7500 quad core turbo speed with no extra turbo.

This allows Intel to sell the spare chips that they were already producing at a 30% to 40% discount to combat Ryzen but without lowering any of their Kaby Lake prices (to appease investors). At $117, the 8100 is pretty competitive speed wise with the similarly priced R3 1300X.
 
Shivansps said:
So the 8100 is actually KBL? this make less sence to me now, they did not need to launch the 8100 at all.
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I thought this was well known since release. I remember reading about it when the Coffee Lake CPUs debuted.

Coffee Lake was really all about 6 core, and they added more power pins to support that. The 4 core parts were repackaged KBL to fit on new socket layout, so there were 4 core parts without having to create another die.

Mods to support CFL on old MB, might be OK for the 4 core parts as they shouldn't need the new power levels anyway, but it would be foolhardy to do for 6 core parts.
 
So I've skimmed through the links in the OP and from what I've gathered my Asrock board is a prime candidate for this mod but I'm still wondering if it is possible to use a 8700 in my Z170 board. Not the K variant just the regular i7-8700. Would I notice a difference going from an i7-6700k to a i7-8700?
 
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