Z87 mobo and Devils Canyon support

[phillyman36]

Just saw that on asus downloads for their mobo their is a new beta bios. Description reads


Z87-DELUXE BIOS 2003
Enhance compatibility for new Anniversary Edition and Devil's Canyon CPU.
Note: Must apply the attached BIOS updater tool first before using the new Intel 4th Gen Core processors.

Also saw


http://www.hardware.fr/news/13724/devil-s-canyon-compatible-z87.html

just in case your browser wont auto translate

http://wccftech.com/motherboard-man...vil-s-canyon-cpu-support-on-z87-motherboards/

 

[zir_blazer]

These are some VERY interesing news. If you look other ASUS Motherboards, even H87 have beta BIOSes for Devil's Canyon support - or basically, any Haswell Motherboard should support it. I didn't saw other manufacturers claiming support, but time will tell.


Now, the issues comes that most of the info from Intel is pretty contradictory. Before Z97 launch, we were told that Haswell Refresh and Broadwell would need new Motherboards because there was some change in the voltage delivery system, or something around those lines. At that moment, Devil's Canyon existence was unknown.
Haswell Refresh ended up being IDENTICAL to Haswell, and capable of working on old Motherboards without even a BIOS update. Devil's Canyon appeared on the map just before Haswell Refresh launch, and Intel said they needed the new Chipset too. Now I think than the original "Haswell Refresh" morphed into Devil's Canyon and Haswell Refresh was used for what we already saw. But if Devil's Canyon got the changed voltage delivery system and STILL works on first generation Haswell Motherboards, you can begin to speculate that Broadwell could end up working with them, too.