Is there a 300 series chipset Mobo compatable with an I7 7700k?

[afd1314]

I'm looking to upgrade my mobo in about a month due to all sorts of issues I'm having with my current one and I would like to get a 300 series chipset mobo so when I decide to upgrade my CPU later I won't have to get a new mobo then. I did minimal research into new mobos so far but I've noticed that a fair few say they aren't compatable with last gen CPUs. Was wondering if any are compatable and if so, please link them so I can check them out. Thank you.

 

[volkgren]

Unfortunately no. Apparently Intel did not want to make it easy for us. They'd rather you buy both CPU and motherboard.

 

[afd1314]

Understood. Well I just bought a new cpu so I guess I'll just have to buy another 200 series chipset mobo. Unfortunate.

 

[android_dev]

You can if you 'mod' your BIOS but you will have to know how to use hardware BIOS programmer to flash or borrow your friend's CoffeeLake CPU to flash modded BIOS.

 

[Karadjgne]

Even with custom bios, the skylake/kabylake cpus only have minimal ability on 300 series boards, or vice versa. The problem lies in the fact that while both are lga1151, that doesn't mean all the pin settings are identical.

 

[android_dev]

As far as I know the processor detection pins for the i3 CoffeeLake series uses the same ones from the i5 and i7 from KabyLake generation, so it will work as far as I can see but not worth the risk as you can brick the board if the mod goes wrong.

 

[Karadjgne]

Might wanna read.

https://www.techspot.com/news/73549-modders-get-coffee-lake-cpu-running-200100-series.html

 

[android_dev]

Might wanna read.

https://www.techspot.com/news/73549-modders-get-coffee-lake-cpu-running-200100-series.html

Yeah I'm rootuser123 in the post, I fixed up the iGPU part. But the others guys fixed the rest up with the PCI-E lane the most difficult one fixed by one of the Russian programmers.

 

[Karadjgne]

Lol. Yeah, all of which adds upto 'nope, it won't work' for 98% of ppl.

But it's nice to meet ya.

 

[android_dev]

Lol. Yeah, all of which adds upto 'nope, it won't work' for 98% of ppl.

But it's nice to meet ya.

Nice to meet you too.