Bonjour,

I bought a motherboard Z390 GIGABYTE SLI, I modified in anticipation the bios to receive a Skylake 6700K.
I will also take a Céléron G4900 to be able to flash the bios of the motherboard hoping to then install my 6700K.
I would like to know if anyone has already tried this procedure and if so, does it work well?
For the modification of the bios Z390 I integrated the 6700K + the VGA bios and then the driver IntelGopDriver.efi.
Thank you for your feedback.

J'ai acheté une carte mère Z390 GIGABYTE SLI, j'ai modifié en prévision le bios pour recevoir un Skylake 6700K.
Je vais prendre aussi un Céléron G4900 pour pouvoir flashé le bios de la carte mère en espérant pouvoir installer ensuite mon 6700K.
J'aimerai savoir si quelqu'un a déjà tenté cette procédure et si oui est-ce que cela fonctionne bien ?
Pour la modification du bios Z390 j'ai intégré le 6700K + le VGA bios et ensuite le driver IntelGopDriver.efi.
Merci de vos retours.

I would love to do the same thing. My Z170 board's memory channel died. Z390 boards are just as cheap new as used Zx70 boards. I would like to get a nice Z390 Aorus Pro and then upgrade to Coffee Lake as used i9/i7 prices come down into the used market. Has there been a reported case of Sky/Kabylake on Z3x0 board?

It will not work. Z390 is a 14nm chipset, and therefore can't run the version of ME required for 6th-7th gen.

The only reason Z370, H310C, and B365 work is because they still use the 22nm process and that can be downgraded to the right ME.

Zitat von _haru im Beitrag #4

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It will not work. Z390 is a 14nm chipset, and therefore can't run the version of ME required for 6th-7th gen.

The only reason Z370, H310C, and B365 work is because they still use the 22nm process and that can be downgraded to the right ME.

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It's the same as for Coffee Lake on Z170/Z270 etc.

You need to add Skylake (506E3) or Kabylake (906E9) microcode to the BIOS.

You will also need to downgrade ME to 11.6.0.xxxx or 11.7.0.1229 or 11.7.0.1261.

If the board has a locked flash descriptor you will need to use a BIOS programmer or audio IC pinmod method to unlock the FD and flash the ME region.

I used the EVGA Z370 Classified K and an i3-6320 (Skylake) as an example;




Note that some Z370 boards can't overclock the RAM (XMP not working).

There is a list of known boards that work on a chinese forum, I might have a look and post it here.

Don't forget that the ONLY 300-series chipsets that will take a Skylake/Kaby Lake CPU are Z370, H310C, or B365.

Yep, here is the list of Z370 boards tested by Zntx on baidu;

1. ASUS PRIME Z370-A (no XMP)

2. ASUS TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING (no XMP)

3. MSI Z370-A PRO (no XMP)

4. MSI Z370 GAMING M5 (no XMP)

5. MSI Z370 Gaming PLUS (no XMP)

6. MSI Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON A (no XMP)

7. Z370 AORUS GAMING 7 (XMP ok)

8. GIGABYTE Z370 HD3 (XMP not tested)

9. ASRock Z370 Taichi (XMP greater than 2666 = boot loop)

10. Colorful IGAME Z370 VULCAN (XMP not tested)