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by xxs 2930 days ago
Well, you can mod Z170 actually. Intel played super duper greedy and made a Z370 requirement.

Even Z170 can run 8700K, [0] Z170 (and Z270) needs a cooked bios and the cpu needs a pin short (easy with a pencil 4B) --- and it can even be overclocked if the motherboard VRM is good enough.

[0]: https://community.hwbot.org/topic/175489-asrock-z170-mocf-li...