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Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Have Different Pin Configuration than Previous Generation

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2017/10/02 23:43:58 (permalink)
https://www.techpowerup.com/237508/intel-coffee-lake-cpus-have-different-pin-configuration-than-previous-generation
 
The coffee lake Intel CPUs are coming very soon and still a lot of people wonder why these CPUs won't work in previous chipsets. The pin configuration for these coffee lake CPUs are different. So a BIOs update for the older chipset motherboards simply won't work at all. 

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    Re: Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Have Different Pin Configuration than Previous Generation 2017/10/02 23:52:05 (permalink)
     
    So which Motherboards will they work best with? Z series?

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    Re: Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Have Different Pin Configuration than Previous Generation 2017/10/03 17:06:01 (permalink)
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    So which Motherboards will they work best with? Z series?



    The ones to be released next year, I guess.



     
     
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    Re: Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Have Different Pin Configuration than Previous Generation 2017/10/03 20:28:48 (permalink)
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    So which Motherboards will they work best with? Z series?



    The ones to be released next year, I guess.




    Hmmm. Sounds realistic.

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    Re: Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Have Different Pin Configuration than Previous Generation 2017/10/04 03:31:15 (permalink)
    Glad to see this, with some sites claiming it was just a firmware issue I was really starting to wonder.
     
    +14 ground pins and +18 power pins taken from the reserved pool. Hopefully that will offer better overclocking and stable overclocks with less voltage. 


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    Re: Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Have Different Pin Configuration than Previous Generation 2017/10/04 14:15:30 (permalink)
    Planned socket obsolescence, thanks Intel 




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