Devil's Canyon Z87- Compatible!

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It seems like Devil's Canyon will be supported by Z87 boards after all. Just by a BIOS update.


While Intel had initially said that Haswell "Devil's Canyon" would not be compatible with LGA1150 motherboards based on Intel 8 Series chipset and the rumors spoke of a change in terms of CPU power, it would seem this information is ultimately inaccurate. Indeed the lack of formal compatibility from Intel would only related to the slightly higher TDP of 4 watts, a marginal increase that may be collected by any power LGA1150 board floor, even more the Z87 that are tailored for overclocking. A motherboard manufacturer has also told us that the validation tests on Serie 8 were underway for adding support of Devil's Canyon in the next bios. Here So great news! As a reminder, DC are Haswell with some modifications intended to improve overclocking, especially at the contact between die and HIS but also the power to the back of the CPU filter capacitors. Rumors point to two versions: - Core i5-4690K: 3.5 GHz, Turbo 3.9 GHz (100 MHz vs i5-4670K) - Core i7-4790K: 4.0 GHz, Turbo 4.4 GHz (500 i7-4770K vs MHz)

Their announcement is planned for Computex in early June, so we should know more about the price, availability date and perhaps the contribution of changes in practice. motherboards based on chipset Intel Serie 9 thus lose what was thought to be an advantage, they retain against by the exclusive support Broadwell ... until proven otherwise!
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Source: http://blackholetec.com/main/article/devils-canyon-z87-compatible
 
I thought z87 would. It would be kinda retarded for Intel/Asus, Gigabyte, etc. to abandon year old boards.
 
Yeah its good news, but apparently they don't over clock well, even though that's what they're intended to improve via better sub-heat spreader TIM and voltage stabilisation capacitors. Not worth the upgrade, but probably the better option if buying new. Bit of a yawn, but time will tell.

I'm hoping the next iteration of 2011 socket with DDR4 (X99 chip set) will be backwards compatible with X79 via a BIOS!! Fingers crossed.
 
Okedokey said:
I'm hoping the next iteration of 2011 socket with DDR4 (X99 chip set) will be backwards compatible with X79 via a BIOS!! Fingers crossed.
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Would you anticipate them coming with an IMC that supports both DDR3 and DDR4?

I remember AMD doing this with the Phenom II but it really gimped the performance for DDR3 platforms. I'd be surprised if both were supported.
 
It will be the same socket, just the RAM slots wont be the same so I think the CPUs will be supported, just not the DDR4.
 
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Okedokey said:
Yeah its good news, but apparently they don't over clock well, even though that's what they're intended to improve via better sub-heat spreader TIM and voltage stabilisation capacitors. Not worth the upgrade, but probably the better option if buying new. Bit of a yawn, but time will tell.

I'm hoping the next iteration of 2011 socket with DDR4 (X99 chip set) will be backwards compatible with X79 via a BIOS!! Fingers crossed.
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That's most likely not going to happen I'm afraid. This is an entirely other situation than the small clockspeed bump from the 4770K to 4790K. In your case we're talking about the transition from Ivy-Bridge-E compatibility to Haswell-E. We already saw a new socket replacing the 1155 for Haswell on the consumer class.
 
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