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How can I avoid problems with CPU power?

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00:00 How Can I Avoid Problems With Cpu Power?
00:38 Accepted Answer Score 44
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

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Your CPU is not compatible with your motherboard. It is from a previous LGA1151 generation and your new motherboard chipset does not support this CPU.

Your Intel i5-7400 processor is a Kaby Lake processor which is not compatible with the 300 series chipset on your motherboard. You will need an LGA1151 Revision 2 CPU, something from the Coffee Lake range. An equivalent CPU would be either an i3-8100 or an i5-8400. Either of these would be an improvement over what you currently have (and would actually work).

See this chart from the Wikipedia Article on LGA1151 processors:

Coffee Lake processors support

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1151

You can also verify this by checking the CPU Support page listed on your motherboard manufacturers website:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-M-GAMING-rev-10#support-cpu
(Unfortunately the table is too large to screenshot, however the minimum currently supported i series CPU is the i3-8100t)