Buying mobo & cpu

[mark8m]

When buying a mobo how can I be sure that it will work out of the box with the cpu without needing to update the bios?
I really want to avoid asking for an older cpu just for updating the bios..

 

[Supahos]

Buy the chipset that came with the CPU. What cpu are you looking at. 8th gen Intel z370/b360, 9th gen Intel z390, ryzen 2*** b450/x470. Ryzen 1*** b350/x370/b450x470

Those will all work out the box

 

[Dunlop0078]

By making sure the CPU you have supports whatever chipset the mobo uses out of the box? If you are for example buying a i7 7700k and plan to put it in a Z170 mobo you need to make sure the Z170 mobo has a BIOS that supports kaby lake. If you have a Z270 mobo no worries the 7700k will work with Z270 out of the box.

If you are wondering how to tell if a Z170 mobo will support kaby lake out of the box before buying it, you likely cant unless the seller advertises it as such.

 

[mark8m]

By making sure the CPU you have supports whatever chipset the mobo uses out of the box? If you are for example buying a i7 7700k and plan to put it in a Z170 mobo you need to make sure the Z170 mobo has a BIOS that supports kaby lake. If you have a Z270 mobo no worries the 7700k will work with Z270 out of the box.

If you are wondering how to tell if a Z170 mobo will support kaby lake out of the box before buying it, you likely cant unless the seller advertises it as such.

Yeah I was wondering how to tell if a mobo will support the cpu out of the box before buying it... how do you know that the 7700k will work with Z270?

 

[Supahos]

Because it's the chipset that was released with 7th gen.

The z170 came out with 6th gen so it needs a bios update to run

Z370 won't work at all with a 7th gen cpu

 

[Supahos]

If you want something specific you'll have to give us a CPU.

There's no magic sauce to knowing other than sort of memorizing what goes with what.

Other than you can always put the cpu and motherboard into www.pcpartpicker.com and see if the incompatibly sensor shows a bios update might be needed

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pzZDdX

Will show you what I mean at top

 

[mark8m]

If you want something specific you'll have to give us a CPU.

There's no magic sauce to knowing other than sort of memorizing what goes with what.

Other than you can always put the cpu and motherboard into www.pcpartpicker.com and see if the incompatibly sensor shows a bios update might be needed

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pzZDdX

Will show you what I mean at top

Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted to know!!