Ever since the very beginning, we have been mentioning that Z370 is not that different from Z270 in terms of processors that could be supported. Well, an Asia based tweaker dropped that down a notch more, he was able top get a Coffee Lake processor working on a Z170 motherboard!
The motherboard used is the MSI Z170A Xpower Titanium, and arguably Z170 thus even could support a Core i7 8700K. Basically, the tweaker modified power delivery for overclocking. He was able to boot into Windows OS with a Core i3-8350K processor. It should be mentioned though that BIOS modifications and obviously processor microcode alteration in the firmware were necessary for this to work. The IGP, however, he could not get working, also the first x16 (graphics PCI-Express slot ) wasn’t responding working either, and thus that requires further modification.
A spoked person from ASUS already mentioned that Coffee lake support for Z170/270 was disabled as a requirement from Intel. Earlier on, reversed, we also heard ourselves that Z370 could run Kaby Lake just fine and merely would need support in the firmware, but that again is blocked by Intel.
Source: Baidu via PCLab via Videocardz
