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Modders Get Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs To Run On Incompatible Motherboards (pcgamer.com)
Paul Lilly reports via PC Gamer: It took some time and a whole lot of tweaking, but modders have finally figured out a way to get Intel's Coffee Lake processors running on older motherboards based on Intel's Z270 and Z170 chipsets. Even though Coffee Lake is pin compatible with older LGA 1151 motherboards, the official word from Intel is that the power requirements differ, and as such Coffee Lake only works in newer motherboards based on Intel's Z370 chipset. [T]here is a forum post on Overclock.net that outlines how it can be done. It is a fairly involved process and specific to ASRock motherboards, which the modders claim "have proven to work well" with the steps that are outlined. In short, getting a Coffee Lake processor to run in an older motherboard requires making tweaks to the CPU's microcode, the iGPU's UEFI GOP driver, and some Management Engine bootstraps. The modders were able to get a Core i3-8300 processor to boot in a couple of older boards, but not a Core i7-8700 chip. That is a higher core chip, of course -- six cores instead of four -- which seems to suggest that the power issue is related to driving higher core counts.
stick a fork in this place, the fat lady is clearing her throat
...can it run Crysis....on Linux? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those?
Kudos to the modders for making the i3 series even work; that's a pretty cool feat on a technical level.
But I've got a i7 8700K; and I can't really imagine even wanting to hack it into an older motherboard... under any circumstances.
Its sort of like figuring out how to install an american v8 into a Porsche 911. There's modders who do that... but I can't fathom why.
I know playing and hacking tech for fun is a thing. But really why even bother trying this? it isn't like the motherboard is the most expensive component when doing an upgrade. Surely their are better projects to waste ones time on?
Congrats, btw. But this is so bad. Intel is so stressed out at the moment from Spectre and Meltdown, and now this mess is being thrown upon them. There may just well be an actual meltdown in Intel Corp HQ.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k
Given the microcode, ME, and other lowest level firmware bits are normally signed and cannot be altered, how many violations of the DMCA are we looking at here? I'm honestly curious given how much effort is put into keeping us out of our own property.
So you save $200 with $5000 worth of equipment and knowledge and time?
Good for you? I guess?
Could you atleast attempt to prove that this mod is a worthwhile effort by posting some benchmark scores. I'm guessing these systems aren't stable enough to run most benchmarking suites reliably and even if they do the scores won't be much better than the same class of chip that Intel spec'd for that generation of motherboard.
Well this is the one time the ME (Management Engine) is good for something.
Please give me advice. This is totally OT, so I'm posting as AC.
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Thank you.
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>> "have proven to work well" with the steps that are outlined.
"Work well" implies that they patched meltdown and spectre, and that it's slow as crawl.
Intel processors, by defective design, cannot work well any more.
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Stuff like this will drive us to Ryzen
Who would buy flawed hardware from Intel at this point when new chips that supposedly fix meltdown issue are supposedly only months away?
If I were in the market for new hardware right now I would seriously be looking to AMD.
Personally starting to get tired of Intel's antics.
- Failing to own up to Meltdown and false equivalences
- ECC not available on normal non-xenon processors
- Having to fuck with inf files to get "desktop" chipsets to work on server versions of Windows
- Management engine comparatively nobody uses yet everyone gets to suffer thru vulnerabilities.
- Stunts like TFA
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Not sure I would waste so much time getting a core i3 to work on a older motherboard? Maybe a core i7 which could save you some money not having to buy a new board. I guess some like a challenge, but for a core i3 ?
FOAD already
I mean come on. There are plenty of things modders and hackers can work on that actually have a lot of value. But this? Just buy a new board and move on already.
The forum post gets it right.
They cannot and did not make tweaks to the microcode. They took the coffee lake microcode blob from Intel and put it into the older gen board. So that board was presenting the right microcode for the CPU.
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So you can upgrade your processor without having to pay for a new Windows license?
On the other hand, and with respect to some members of The Hacker Community, Windows license, what's that?
You have the right to arm bears, we have the right to mod our computers.
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