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asus confirms coffeelake could have worked in z270

Even if I could fit my 6700k into a z370 for now, then upgrade the processor later, I'd be very tempted
 
If they were allowed to put coffeelake in the Z270 boards I bet they would have made far more money than locking them to Z370.

I only picked up an Asus Z270 formula a few months back and if I could replace my 7700k by dropping in coffeelake and updating the BIOS I would have done it in a heartbeat. But as I needed a new board I am not getting rid of a high end board so quickly.

Damn you Intel.
 
There's a shortage of 8700Ks anyway. With Z270 upgraders added to that demand there would have been even more frustration.

The extra power delivery will surely help overclocks - given the 8700K is going to 5ghz easily, that's a lot more power than a 7700K at 5ghz. Given the Z line of boards are for overclockers, it makes sense they'd want to beef up power delivery.

Backwards compatibility of the non-K models would make sense though.
 
Wake me up for Z390+8 core and hopefully dump the igpu in the top tier CPU core but I doubt we ever see solder again.
 
I can see it now, the absolute uproar, as AMD announce the new Ryzen updates that need a new board, but do in fact keep the AM4 socket.

:D:p:D
 
Ah After rereading it, I see what you mean, doh.

I was meaning the new Ryzen+ chips that are supposedly coming in the new year, even though I reckon that February is, wishing on a star.:)
 
bru said:
Ah After rereading it, I see what you mean, doh.

I was meaning the new Ryzen+ chips that are supposedly coming in the new year, even though I reckon that February is, wishing on a star.:)
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Isn't Pinnacle Ridge the new Ryzen+ due in February?!
 
I thought they were starting risk production in February, so that would be 2 to 3 months after that the chips were ready and assembled onto cards.

It's 6 weeks to make the wafers and another 6 to to cut, test, assemble, package, etc.

So if starting in February we won't see the finished cards till, May sort of time frame.

If February was when they are expecting the wafers to be done, then surely they would say risk production in December 2017, as it sounds much better being earlier.
 
bru said:
And?????

Relevance?
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bru said:
Ah After rereading it, I see what you mean, doh.

I was meaning the new Ryzen+ chips that are supposedly coming in the new year, even though I reckon that February is, wishing on a star.:)
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Why,wut??

Raven Ridge is the Zen APU which might have existing cores or the improved ones.

Pinnacle Ridge is Zen+ though!

bru said:
I thought they were starting risk production in February, so that would be 2 to 3 months after that the chips were ready and assembled onto cards.

It's 6 weeks to make the wafers and another 6 to to cut, test, assemble, package, etc.

So if starting in February we won't see the finished cards till, May sort of time frame.

If February was when they are expecting the wafers to be done, then surely they would say risk production in December 2017, as it sounds much better being earlier.
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Its most likely in reality we will see Zen+ a year after Ryzen MK1,so probably more like March to April at the earliest IMHO.

GF 12NM is basically an improved version of the existing GF 14NM with certain 7NM class features(apparently) so I would expect less issues than the ramp to 14NM as Ryzen was delayed by at least three months.

The Ryzen APU is being launched next month for laptops AFAIK.
 
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