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BIOSTAR Intel 300 Series Motherboards Support 9th Generation Intel Core Processors

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BIOSTAR's entire lineup of Intel 300 Series motherboards now supports the recently released 9th generation Intel Core processors featuring up to 8-cores, 16-threads Intel Core i9-9900K processors. This includes BIOSTAR Intel 300 series motherboards with chipsets: H310, B360, and Z370. To enable support for the 9th generation Intel Core processors, BIOSTAR Intel 300 Series motherboards users simply need to update the motherboard's BIOS and Intel ME with the latest version.





Supported by all BIOSTAR Intel 300 Series Motherboards
All BIOSTAR Intel 300 series motherboards can now take advantage of Intel's latest Coffee Lake processors, this includes high performance gaming motherboards, entry-level models for home and office users, and the crypto-mining BTC series motherboards. This update will enable gamers and content creators to get the most out of their BIOSTAR Intel 300 Series motherboards by upgrading to 9th Generation Intel Core processors. The models include: RACING B360GT3S, RACING B360GT5S, B360MHD PRO, B360MHD PRO2, H310MHD PRO, H310MHD PRO2, B360TH, H310MHC, H310MHC2, RACING Z370GT6, TB360-BTC PRO, and TB360-BTC Expert.

About the 9th Generation Intel Core Processors
The 9th generation Intel Core processors deliver up to 10% better performance on games such as Hitman 2 and World of Tanks over the previous generation Intel CPUs. It also delivers up to 34% performance improvement for video editing All three of the 9th Gen Intel Core processors, i5-9600K, i7-9700K and i9-9900K, enable fast, immersive experience for gamers, with up to 8 cores and 16 threads, up to 5.0 GHz single-core turbo frequency, and 16 MB Intel Smart Cache. The 9th Gen Intel Core desktop processors deliver amazing performance, including unlocked "K" SKUs at each brand level and up to 40 platform PCI-e 3.0 lanes for system expandability for gaming, creating and overclocking.

Make a USB Boot Device
  • Install Rufus https://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale
  • Download the relevant zip files according to your motherboard model.
  • Extract the zip file, copy the ME folder and BIOS file to that USB device.

Updating the BIOS
  • Power on motherboard and press F12 key during POST screen.
  • After POST, it will show a menu for BIOS update.
  • Use the BIOS file on the list from left side to update. (It will wait a moment for system to load the BIOS file.)
  • Press Y key to flash the BIOS and erase DMI data, then system will update the BIOS automatically.
  • After reboot, system will run with new BIOS you just updated.

Updating Intel ME
  • In the BIOS setup and set the "CSM support" to Enable, then press F10 to Save and Exit.
  • Once rebooted press F9 to select USB drive containing the Intel ME update file.
  • In Dos mode, type in command to check current ME version
  • If the ME version is "11.8.55.3510", then you are already using the most updated version. If not, please follow the instructions provided in the zip file to update the latest version.

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Let's hope people don't stick the i9 9900k on a "h" chipset board now.
 

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What a relief that they work, I didn't expect that...
 
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Can someone please explain exactly how is this news, or any different from all other mobo maker's new board announcements ????

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Can someone please explain exactly how is this news, or any different from all other mobo maker's new board announcements ????

TIA :)

Its a press announcement, or, in other words: cleverly disguised marketing
 
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Its a press announcement, or, in other words: cleverly disguised marketing
yeah my gigabyte z370 gaming 7 had a bios update from september 20th claiming 9th gen support :/ asrock even before that i believe
 

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Let's hope people don't stick the i9 9900k on a "h" chipset board now.
They should just not make those boards with crappy VRM to support those 8-core chips.
 
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