5 Things to Know About HP EliteDesk 800 G4 TWR Processor Compatibility
Regarding the HP EliteDesk: 1. Only 8th Gen Coffee Lake processors work The G4 TWR supports exclusively 8th Gen chips like i3-8100, i5-8400 through 8600, i7-8700 and 8700K, plus Xeon E-2100 series.
7th Gen Kaby Lake processors are not compatible Despite using the same LGA 1151 socket, 7th Gen chips won’t fit because Intel changed the pinout with Coffee Lake.
9th Gen processors are also unsupported You cannot install any 9th Gen chips, even though they share the same socket generation.
The socket looks identical but isn’t The physical LGA 1151 socket appears the same across generations, but the electrical pinout differs between Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake.
HP’s Q370 chipset enforces the restriction The motherboard’s Q370 chipset implementation strictly limits compatibility to 8th Gen processors only.