Gen 3 i7 in modern motherboard?

[poisonedporkchop]

I just got my new motherboard in today, as I am building a new computer, when I realized that on the CPU socket it says LGA115X.

Some quick research (http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3577382/lga-115x-equal-lga-1151-socket.html) told me that LGA1155 is supported by the motherboard.

This interests me because my current rig has an Intel i7 3770 in it which according to this (https://ark.intel.com/products/65719/Intel-Core-i7-3770-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3-90-GHz-) is LGA1155 compatible, if I am correct about the assumption that FCLGA1155 is compatible with LGA1155.

My only concern is that the aforementioned CPU page also lists that it supports DDR3 RAM, whilst the new RAM for this new motherboard is DDR4. Has Intel simply not updated this page to say it can support DDR4 RAM or is it truly incompatible?

I do plan to get an Intel i9 9900k in a couple weeks, but it sure would be cool if I could set up the rest of my system now with my current processor. Will this longshot work?

Motherboard since I didn't link it above: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-AORUS-PRO-WIFI-rev-10#kf

 

[volkgren]

CPU coolers can be used on multiple LGA 115X sockets. Motherboards are only compatible with a single socket. Not sure why your motherboard says LGA 115X. You cannot use an LGA 1155 CPU in an LGA 1151 motherboard. Your Z390 motherboard will only support 8th and 9th-gen Intel CPUs. There's a somewhat illogical exclusion Intel did, 6th and 7th-gen are both LGA 1151; however, they are only compatible with 100 and 200 series Intel motherboards, while 8th and 9th-gen Intel CPUs are only compatible with 300 series Intel motherboards. It's LGA 1151 v1 versus v2, except they don't have to put v1 or v2 on the products.