Mickey: Adventure: Running 8/9th gen Coffee Lake CPUs on Z170 motherboard (ASUS Maximus...

Hello everyone, I am writing this to share about my adventure making Coffee Lake CPUs work on Z170 motherboard. My secondary system as on specs has an ASUS Maximus VIII Ranger (Z170) that officially supports up to 7th gen CPUs (7700K). I have been using an i5 7600K @4.9 GHz since March 2017. As you might know, 8th and 9th gen CPUs fit in the socket perfectly however, the motherboard doesn't start. Until now that is.
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