Some Intel X99 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Broadwell-E CPUs?

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I know this is probably a site error and most of these CPUs have been out long enough for manufacturers to release BIOS updates accordingly, but I still wanted to make sure. I'm looking at purchasing an i7 6800K with a ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer/3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard.

Will it work? Also, I have an H100i GTX Liquid Cooler in another build which Is still in good condition and I'm looking at using it to cool the 6800K. Will this work also?

Thanks
 
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You will probably need to flash the BIOS to add Broadwell-E compatibility, because they ship with original BIOS versions, but thats just a case of loading the latest BIOS from ASRock onto a flash drive and quickly updating. Will only take minutes.

And yes that cooler will be plenty.
 
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Well, the Broadwell-E CPU's are quite a bit newer than those X99 motherboards, which obviously originally released along with the Haswell-E processors. Nowadays those X99 most likely do ship with updated BIOS which will support Broadwell-E processors out of the box but what if you got one from old stock? That's why it does mention ''May need a BIOS update''. Will you most likely need one? Don't think so really.
 
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Check for the BIOS version if its 3.0 then you are good to go with i7 6800k. The latest version of BIOS for this MB is 3.10.


http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20X99X%20Killer3.1/?cat=Download&os=BIOS
 
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So if the BIOS version which comes with the board by default is version 3.0 or higher? If the latest version is 3.10 then shouldn't it work? How do I check the BIOS version?
 
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