Will an I7 8700k be compatible with my motherboard

[Guest]

I have an asus Z170-P motherboard and was wondering if an I7 8700k would be compatible with it

 

[XxDarkMarioxX]

Nope will not work Intel® Socket 1151 for 6th Generation Core™ i7/Core™ i5/Core™ i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors and that cpu is an 8gen cpu so you need to look for an motherboard that supports 8 gen or find an cpu that surrports this motherboard here the link to list off cpu that will go with your motherboard Z170-P Support list https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/Z170-P/HelpDesk_CPU/

 

[Scottray]

No - it won't work. You need a Z370 mobo for a i7-8700K CPU.

 

[jacobweaver800]

I have an asus Z170-P motherboard and was wondering if an I7 8700k would be compatible with it

Nope will not work Intel® Socket 1151 for 6th Generation Core™ i7/Core™ i5/Core™ i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors and yours is an 8gen!

Sadly Intel has the idea that they need to make a new chipset every 2 or 3 generations, you will need a Z370 board for overclocking your CPU, Z170 and Z270 will not work with your 8th gen CPU despite there being no reason, except 1, that the 8th gen chips can't work with older Z270 boards.

That 1 reason being is that Intel tries there hardest to avoid the consumer buying a motherboard and it not having the correct BIOS update for their CPU and it not working. The same issue AMD is having with Ryzen 2nd gen, and this is generally an issue that happens when you buy a second hand board that wasn't given the latest BIOS, so if Z170 was the latest and supported 6th 7th and 8th gen CPUs and you bought a second hand board that didn't have the latest BIOS update or bought a board from the shelf of a store that is supposed to support the new CPU but wasn't given the correct BIOS update because it was on the shelf before the new CPUs launched, and your new fancy 8th gen wont work because the board only has the BIOS update for 7th gen CPU. (sorry for the long explanation)