HP Elite Slice - Kaby Lake Support?

[CPUGrade]

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@soopaboxwrote:

Hi, your post caught my attention as I was wanting to upgrade my i3 to i5 7500T but since you had boot problem I went into research mode, as I didnt want to have same issue with 7th Gen CPU not booting, especially if its shiny new. To make a long story shorter, my slice has the Skylake chipset on the mainboard with Q170 southbridge (SPUID CPU-Z).  Looking at cpugrade.com  i5 7500T in the compatibility section it shows supported chipset to be the Q270/250 which my mainboard doesnt have.  I checked for the i7 7700T and same result i7 7700T. Even if BIOS is updated to support those CPU's if the southbridge chipset is the Q170 in your mainboard, then it will never boot. The other poster who came up with the idea of hp using a newer/different mainboard on the slices that will be 7th  gen CPU equipped is pobably right. It looks to me that the 7th gen CPUs arent backward compatible with the Q170 chipset. So I went to ebay and got a i5 6600T.  Close enough to the i5 7500T for my use.

Hope this helps or at least was entertaining.

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but..if you were able to get the i7 7700T to boot-please let me know so I can get a shiny i5 7500T !!

and I am not an IT expert.

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Hello all,

I am the owner of CPU Grade. I saw this thread and wanted to clarify a couple of things.

In regards to chipset compatiblity, the Intel website is not always correct. There have been numerous occasions in the past where I have had compatibility between processor and chipset when there should have been no compatibility.

CPU Grade will list chipsets that are released alongside the processor in question. For Kaby Lake, that is the 200 Series. However, this does not mean that other chipsets (the 100 Series in this case) are incompatible.

Chipset compatibility is provided by the BIOS, and in updating the BIOS you are theoretically also able to update the list of compatible chipsets. This is certainly the case for most systems running Skylake and the 100 Series chipsets.

The decision to omit these chipsets from the compatibility section was made because said compatibility relies entirely on a BIOS update. Not all motherboard models receive BIOS updates and so I decided that it would be less misleading and assumptive to provide only the chipset models that are released alongside the processors.

With that said, the website itself will contain sections in the near future, dedicated to helping people with compatibility qualms such as this.

I appreciate that you chose to visit my website, and I thank you for bringing this to my attention so that I could clear up any confusion between what the website states, and what is reality. This can also serve as an explanation for anyone who happens to stumble across this thread in the future.

Kind regards,

Dylan

[soopabox]

Hi Dylan, first off, thanks for chiming in on the thread-appreciate your information. Second, great job on your web site, it was very helpful, and easy to navigate. A great resource!  The slice is a specialty, using a motherboard that is not off the shelf, which I knew going in, so upgrading cpus will be very limited, depending upon BIOS updates that work for next gen cpus etc/southbridge/etc. Its great to have people like you create a place to go research to improve the odds of new parts working in our machines, an extra added bonus when you post information.  Thanks for your update.

[CPUGrade]

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@soopabox wrote:

Hi Dylan, first off, thanks for chiming in on the thread-appreciate your information. Second, great job on your web site, it was very helpful, and easy to navigate. A great resource!  The slice is a specialty, using a motherboard that is not off the shelf, which I knew going in, so upgrading cpus will be very limited, depending upon BIOS updates that work for next gen cpus etc/southbridge/etc. Its great to have people like you create a place to go research to improve the odds of new parts working in our machines, an extra added bonus when you post information.  Thanks for your update.

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No problem! I'm glad to help.

Thank you for the kind words. 🙂