Modders get Coffee Lake CPUs working on Intel 100/200 series motherboards

Modders get Coffee Lake CPUs working on Intel 100/200 series motherboards

Modders get Coffee Lake CPUs working on Intel 100/200 series motherboards

The motherboard modders elisw, dsanke, littlehill MovAX and 0xDEAD have released a guide which can enable users of 100/200 series motherboards to support Coffee Lake series CPUs, allowing his own ASRock H110 motherboard to support a Coffee Lake i3, including its GPU component. 

This mod could be the start of a new underground BIOS modding scene for previous generation Intel desktop motherboards, though even elisw has stated that the process is risky and does not recommend using his guide to get Coffee Lake i5 and i7 CPUs to work on the platform due to their higher power limits. Long story short he doesn’t recommend using Intel’s new 6-core CPUs on their older motherboards, making the change a little pointless. 

In his examples, elisw has shown an i3 8100 working on an ASRock H110 motherboard (benchmarks here) and doesn’t show any i5 or i7 6-core processors working on modded 100 or 200 series motherboards, though he does show that both the CPU and iGPU portions of the product are functional on his modded motherboard. This mod proves that there is no technical reason why Intel’s Coffee Lake i3 Quad Cores are compatible with Intel’s older platforms, with Intel locking support using microcode and other UEFI software changes.     

In time, it is likely that we will see other BIOS modders use this guide to attempt to get other Coffee Lake CPUs to work on Intel 100/200 series motherboards, proving once and for all whether or not Coffee Lake 6-core processors could ever have been supported on these older platforms. 

  

Modders get Coffee Lake CPUs working on Intel 100/200 series motherboards

 

In a thread over on Overclock.net, it is reported that a 6-core Coffee Lake CPU has been bootable on an MSI Z270 motherboard, though no benchmarking data has been released to prove the stability of this configuration at this time. 

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