Will different gen's cpu and motherboard match and run?

[Ricardo_40]

I want to upgrade my procesor but my procesor and motherboard and fear that the components won't work together.

This is the motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com.mx/Motherboard/GA-H110M-H-rev-10#ov
And processor: https://ark.intel.com/products/97147/Intel-Core-i5-7400-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

They are the same sockets but not gen and i am worried they wont match

 

[Ecky]

If you update the BIOS before installing the new CPU, it will work.

 

[greens]

They are a match... presuming the motherboard has the most up to date bios.

Given that kabylake was released so recently - old stock of skylake motherboards will not be up to date.

The problem is - if your H110 is from older stock, it won't have the update. And you can't apply the update without a working CPU. So you'd have to source a skylake processor, update the motherboard, then install your kaby lake processor. (a huge pain)

To be safe you should get a 2xx series board, or a skylake processor.

 

[greens]

I have only seen a couple ROG boards that allowed BIOS updates without a processor. Most won't POST without a CPU and therefore can't be updated. I doubt an H110 board will be able to update without a CPU.