Thanks. I know how to do it. I just want to know if anyone actually installed the Kaby Lake CPU in 2015 iMac as it is hassle to disassemble/assemble everything.
As far as I am aware there are no drivers needed for a CPU to work with any system. I think it would not work though because of the iMacs motherboard socket might be different from the Skylake to Kaby Lake.Wouldn't macOS have to have a drive to support it?
If this is possible that would be awesome though. While I'm at it I'd buy the cable for the second SATA port and throw in a 1TB SSD in the SATA3 drive slot.
As far as I am aware there are no drivers needed for a CPU to work with any system. I think it would not work though because of the iMacs motherboard socket might be different from the Skylake to Kaby Lake.
In that case it might work. Someone give it a try and post backsame socket design
As far as I am aware there are no drivers needed for a CPU to work with any system. I think it would not work though because of the iMacs motherboard socket might be different from the Skylake to Kaby Lake.
Agreed, OS X would need the kexts for that CPU and at the moment, I don't believe Apple supports that CPU.As far as I am aware there are no drivers needed for a CPU to work with any system.
This is exactly right. Getting it to work in an iMac would be similar to getting it to work in a hackintosh. That requires a firmware update, and an updated kext. On an iMac you could install the necessary kext, but the firmware update would need to come from Apple which I don't see them doing.The skylark and Kaby lake CPU use the same cpu's and chipsets u can use skylark in the 270 chipset and the Kaby in the 170 it's the bios/ firmware that has to be updated for the 170 chipsets to use Kaby as of right now Kaby won't work as there is no firmware update for it from apple