Asus confirms that z270 could be compatible with coffee lake
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In an interview with Bit-tech, Andrew Wu of Asus ROG has made statements that will reignite controversy over the incompatibility of Coffee Lake processors with the motherboards of the Z270 platform.
Compatibility would be limited to Coffee Lake CPUs with a maximum of 6 cores
Andrew Wu claims that compatibility of the Z270 platform with Coffee Lake processors would not have been impossible after all. Andrew Wu explained that it depends on Intel's decision. He mentions that Asus' own engineers could make their Z270 motherboards compatible with Coffee Lake although for this they would need an ME update and a BIOS update, ultimately confirming that Intel has blocked compatibility in some way.
It seems like the different pinout doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of Coffee Lake's current line-up: CPU socket and platform, as designed with Z270, could have handled the increase in core counts and loads power. However, the question gets darker with Intel's ability to launch an 8-core CPU for the Z370 platform, that particular number of cores might definitely be too much for the Z270's power delivery.
With a polite assumption, Intel could have allowed Coffee Lake compatibility on Z270 motherboards with up to 6-core processors, but would need the new Z370 platform to enable Coffee Lake-based 8-core chip operation.
Recall that the Z270 platform went on sale at the beginning of the year along with the Kaby Lake processors, so we are talking about motherboards that have not even a year of life yet and will not be compatible with future generations of processors.
Roadmap confirms the arrival of 'coffee lake' in 2018
Intel is already thinking about a new range of processors, which will be codenamed Coffee Lake. They will be available in 2018.
Intel coffee lake may be compatible with z270 (lga 1151)
Everything indicates that the new Intel Coffe Lake processors will be fully compatible with Z270 motherboards with a simple BIOS update.
Intel confirms the existence of the z390 for coffee lake and cannon lake
A few weeks ago Biostar had hinted (unintentionally) about the Intel Z390 chipset and we were rubbing our hands. Now it can be said that the existence of a chipset is practically official, thanks to documentation from the North American company itself.
