ASRock z170 MOCF lives on Coffee Lake Mods

[Splave]

Benefits of ASRock motherboards is continued support and with coffee this is no different. 

This mod and bios will actually will help them lose money. So make sure to thank Nick

 

Mod point is below, connect both pads with tin/silver ink etc.

Flash bios http://picx.xfastest.com/nickshih/asrock/Z17MOCF751A.rar with kabylake CPU, shut down insert coffee and go.

XP working fine 

ASRock nor I take any liability for HW damage, perform at your own risk.

Enjoy!

 

 

(pic courtesy of HKEPC) 

 

[Noxinite]

Woah! Does it work for LN2 benching?

[Hiwa]

I have a brand new board

[Splave]

16 minutes ago, Noxinite said:

Woah! Does it work for LN2 benching?

Yes indeed

[Alan_Alberino]

There are some pins covered with tape... Need to cover them?

[Noxinite]

6 minutes ago, Splave said:

Yes indeed

32M?

[Splave]

7 minutes ago, Alan_Alberino said:

There are some pins covered with tape... Need to cover them?

no need 

3 minutes ago, Noxinite said:

32M?

[d0minat0r]

Now you need good 8700k and 32M WR is done
Thx to ASRock ! Nice job Splave!

[Luumi]

 

Secret coffee lake club with team Asrock?

[rtsurfer]

Holy ****

[GtiJason]

OMG !!!!!!!!!!

[Jumper118]

epicness. 

[DR4G00N]

Time to go buy an 8700k finally. 

[Gulftown]

Nice job guys!

[unityofsaints]

Reallly nice... will this work for all CFL chips?

[Alan_Alberino]

17 hours ago, DR4G00N said:

Time to go buy an 8700k finally. 

Yep, thinking the same... Didn't want to pay U$S 350 for 115X board

[yosarianilives]

Looks like the barrier to entry for locked xtu gold just got a little higher  

[TASOS]

23 hours ago, Splave said:

Benefits of ASRock motherboards is continued support and with coffee this is no different. 

This mod and bios will actually will help them lose money. So make sure to thank Nick

 

Do you know if there is a bios for the regular Z170 OC Formula ?

[gkmltd]

Hey Splave

Way the bios in your screen shot is P7.60 and the download bios is L7.51A?

Is anybody try to do that mod? and can tell us if its working?

Tnx

[Strunkenbold]

This can work also on other boards / vendors if someone is interested in modding stuff:

https://www.win-raid.com/t3413f16-GUIDE-Coffee-Lake-CPUs-on-Skylake-and-Kaby-Lake-motherboards.html

https://www.win-raid.com/t3483f16-Fixing-PCI-Express-for-Coffee-Lake-CPUs-on-Sky-Kaby-Lake-non-Asrock-and-some-new-Asrock-motherboards.html#msg48580

[Luumi]

So far when we tried shorting with condtuctive glue nothing happens when pushing start button, doesnt even try to power on. @Splave @NickShih

 

And for some reason the bios 7.51 boots fine with kaby??

[Audigy]

LOL it's work Thanks Splave & Nick.

i7-8700K + Z170M + BIOS L7.51A (Mod with 2B pencil)

But cant fix CPU Ratio wait for Nick Update Microcode ha ha.... (Formula Drive is work but not fix CPU ratio all core)

More detail : https://clockemup.com/z170m_ocf_mod_8700k/

Edited April 8, 2018 by Audigy
BIOS Version L7.81A to L7.51A

[Alan_Alberino]

8 hours ago, Audigy said:

But cant fix CPU Ratio wait for Nick Update Microcode ha ha.... (Formula Drive is work but not fix CPU ratio all core)
 

This is due to lack of support of Coffee Lake in AFD, same happened with kaby at launch... If you set it on bios, it works fine? 

[Audigy]

11 hours ago, Alan_Alberino said:

This is due to lack of support of Coffee Lake in AFD, same happened with kaby at launch... If you set it on bios, it works fine? 

Im fix cpu ratio x48 in BIOS but it show in OS @ x37 (Win7 64-bit)
and Cache is fine. ^___^

[Splave]

IF you have trouble booting you can do this mod also but most mobos will not need it. Resistance tolerances are to blame

 

 

Make sure you use a high quality silver conductive pen on cpu backside, less quality nickel or copper maybe not good enough.

 

For multiplier change in OS use XTU for now, there will be fix coming soon.

Edited April 9, 2018 by Splave