Asus says no thank you to Intel on not supporting devils canyon on Z87

Intel was attempting to force users wanting to use their newest Devils canyon unlocked K series processors to upgrade their motherboards to Intel's Z97 chipset motherboards. This did not sit well with alot of users who had just upgraded to a z87 motherboard. Asus has been a bit rebellious as of late as they recently chose to ignore an Intel NDA regarding their Z97 series.
Well it looks like they are at it again. Most, if not all of their Z87 boards have received a bios update allowing the use of Intel's devil canyon processors. This is also backed up on their Cpu support lists.

MAXIMUS VI IMPACT BIOS 1504
Enhance compatibility for new Anniversary Edition and Devil's Canyon CPU.
Note: Must apply the attached BIOS updater tool first before using the new Intel 4th Gen Core processors

if it fits...it sits

:banana::banana::banana::banana: intel http://www.ultimatebuzz.net/forum/im...lies2/5426.gif

Thank you Asus :bows:

The release of the BIOS is nice to see, of course, but I'd like to see some source proving Intel tried to do the alleged action.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by lutjens

The release of the BIOS is nice to see, of course, but I'd like to see some source proving Intel tried to do the alleged action.

---

i really wouldn't doubt that they were, but i too would like to see proof

Does anyone remembers this, from before Devil's Canyon was mentioned for the first time? Haswell Refresh was supposed to have some differences with regular Haswell (Improved TIM, required new Chipsets, etc), yet it ended up being identical to the original Haswell. I think than what originally was going to be Haswell Refresh was renamed to Devil's Canyon. If Devil's Canyon works on 8-Series Chipsets even through we were always told that it didn't, I'm inclined to believe that Broadwell MAY work too on the old Chipsets and not only H97/Z97, assuming the Motherboard accommodates those design changes (Late arriving budget models based on 8-Series Chipsets, as 9-Series only has H97 and Z97 and these are not budget).

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/q...M6Gene/M6G.jpg

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/q...e/M6G4790K.jpg

i7-4790K running on ASUS Maximus VI Gene (Z87) with BIOS 1504.

Thats nice of ASUS, but to be honest, if you already have a Z87 setup, upgrading to a Z97 CPU will be pointless as the performance will be minimal.

Its the overclocking thats supposed to be better.

I've actually changed my mind about Asus, because for them to go it alone in providing full support for previous model motherboards is quite extraordinary. It means that the customer stops getting shafted with Intel's latest chipset and cpu release which is now occurring every year.

It would be nice to have the latest CPU running soundly in your humble Z87 motherboard instead of being forced to buy the next released chipset to run it. Nice one Asus.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Ace123

Its the overclocking thats supposed to be better.

---

+1
We want to see ALL chips doing 5.0GHz on air

Great read, and thank you Asus.

yah, its cool!
owikh, its your chip or not? :-D

Ace123 , this news has become viral all over the net making front page news, thanks to you and for the nice write up , big thumbs up buddy , all credits go to you and XS :yepp:

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/int...d_chipset.html

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....86#post4831086

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/38131/...rds/index.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/201474/in...exclusive.html

and many more to come , this is huge news that we all have been waiting to hear :)

Great news, maybe Gigabyte will follow?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FlanK3r

yah, its cool!
owikh, its your chip or not? :-D

---

It's not my chip bro but a friend of mine who wish to remain anonymous.

Well that got out of control lol

Who cares,

where are 800s series?!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SinOfLiberty

Who cares,

where are 800s series?!

---

Trolling hard again aint you , this tread is about Asus Z87 motherboards and support for Pentium anniversary and Devil's canyon chip , so stop posting NVidia non-sense OBR .. I mean SinOFLibety ( Busted again huh )

I'm thinking 2 things:

1) It's still Haswell, refreshed; and
2) Chipzilla does not take kindly to being hit in the wallet (I smell a microcode lock, or a nefarious 'WIntel' OS update blocking maneuver).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by chispy

Trolling hard again aint you , this tread is about Asus Z87 motherboards and support for Pentium anniversary and Devil's canyon chip , so stop posting NVidia non-sense OBR .. I mean SinOFLibety ( Busted again huh )

---

someone has complexes..

oh well, forums must have such members.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by sauria

Great news, maybe Gigabyte will follow?

---

Gigabyte will offer it as well.

Dino confirmed it on Facebook.

I know MSI is doing it on at least some models (Z87-GD65 for example) and BIOS revisions for it have been live for it since feb 24

lol Intel - first not building mainboards anymore, then forcing partners into selling more new chipsets without real need...wtf?

Thanks ASUS for the new bios!

Aside from PCI-E M.2 support, what is different between the chipsets?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SoF

lol Intel - first not building mainboards anymore, then forcing partners into selling more new chipsets without real need...wtf?

Thanks ASUS for the new bios!

---

Also new CPU sockets when not needed.

I just found the spec sheet for the i7-4790K on Intel's ARK website this morning.

It states that Z87, H87, Q87, Q85, H81 and B85 chipsets all support the processor. I think this should put to rest all the conspiracy theories regarding this...Intel officially lists these chipsets as being compatible, something they wouldn't do if they intended to force buyers of DC to use Z97. Oddly enough Z97 itself isn't listed....;) The spec sheet was probably created prior to the launch of Z97 and needs to be updated.:)

http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/...@compatibility