ASRock on Thursday became the fifth member to join the unofficial Core Gen 9 club, releasing a BIOS update to add support for the unannounced Intel CPU. Like other club members, ASRock's BIOS update is for their motherboards based on the Intel 300 series chipset, and adds support for Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 9000-series processors. In addition, the company officially confirmed that the CPU will have up to eight cores.
28 ASRock motherboards based on the Intel Z370, H370, B360 and H310 chipsets now support the 9th generation Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 processors with the latest BIOS versions. Announcement ASRock rounded up the list of the largest motherboard makers who have added support for Intel's future CPU to their Intel 300-series platform. To date, ASUS, ASRock, GIGABYTE, and MSI have released BIOS versions that are suitable for their existing products.
In addition to launching a new BIOS, ASRock also said on Thursday that it would place the "8 Core CPU Support" sticker on the product box containing a motherboard that could work with Intel's LGA1151 v2 chip that would come with eight cores. Therefore, ASRock confirmed that the upcoming Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 9000 series processors will feature up to eight cores. Noteworthy is that the manufacturer warned that some entry-level motherboards might not be able to provide enough power for Intel's 9000 series processors under heavy load, which might indicate that the upcoming eight-series chips could consume more power than they are. Quad-core and six-core CPUs.
It is generally expected that the 9th Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 processor is based on the Kaby Lake / Coffee Lake microarchitecture and is made using 14nm process technology. Intel has not officially confirmed one of the specifications of the upcoming CPU, but it says that it will refresh the desktop product line by the end of this year
ASRock's Motherboards Supporting Intel's 9th Gen Core CPUs
Chipset Model :
- Intel Z370
- Fatal1ty Z370 Professional Gaming i7
- Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6
- Z370 Killer SLI/ac
- Z370 Killer SLI
- Z370 Extreme4
- Z370 Taichi
- Z370 Pro4
- Z370M Pro4
- Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac
- Z370M-ITX/ac
- Intel H370 Fatal1ty H370 Performance
- H370 Pro4
- H370M Pro4
- H370M-ITX/ac
- Intel B360 Fatal1ty B360 Gaming K4
- B360M Performance
- B360 Pro4
- B360M Pro4
- B360M-HDV*
- B360M-ITX/ac
- Intel H310 H310M-G/M.2*
- H310M-HDV/M.2*
- H310M-HDV*
- H310M-DGS*
- H310M-HDVP*
- H310M-ITX/ac
- H310CM-HDV*
- H310CM-DVS*
Note from ASRock: The performance under heavy load may be compromise due to the higher power consumption of intel 9000 series processor