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Exclusive: Overclocking Locked Intel Skylake CPUs is Now Possible, Tested
Well dream no more! In overclocking circles it was persisted that BCLK (base clock) overclocking might become a possibility in Skylake processors, but it would be up to motherboard manufacturers to circumvent Intel's restrictions. Last night Asrock contacted us to say it has an updated BIOS that enables this condition and we've jumped at the opportunity to test and confirm this.
Asrock has worked some of its magic and has enabled base clock overclocking on all non-K Skylake-S processors. That is, any Asrock Z170 motherboard will be able to overclock the Pentium G4400, G4500, G4520, Core i3-6100, i3-6300, i3-6320, Core i5-6400, i5-6500, i5-6600 and Core i7-6700 above their default operating frequency.
We are told this updated BIOS for their Z170 motherboards will be available to owners very soon. So with that, let's see how the Core i3-6100 gets on when fully unleashed?
So how does it work?
Non-K Skylake processors are multiplier locked and motherboard manufacturers won't be able to circumvent this. Rather they have found a way to make base clock overclocking possible with nothing more than a BIOS update.
I36100_4.7Ghz_CPU-Z.jpg
Exclusive: Overclocking Locked Intel Skylake CPUs is Now Possible, Tested
Well dream no more! In overclocking circles it was persisted that BCLK (base clock) overclocking might become a possibility in Skylake processors, but it would be up to motherboard manufacturers to circumvent Intel's restrictions. Last night Asrock contacted us to say it has an updated BIOS that enables this condition and we've jumped at the opportunity to test and confirm this.
Asrock has worked some of its magic and has enabled base clock overclocking on all non-K Skylake-S processors. That is, any Asrock Z170 motherboard will be able to overclock the Pentium G4400, G4500, G4520, Core i3-6100, i3-6300, i3-6320, Core i5-6400, i5-6500, i5-6600 and Core i7-6700 above their default operating frequency.
We are told this updated BIOS for their Z170 motherboards will be available to owners very soon. So with that, let's see how the Core i3-6100 gets on when fully unleashed?
So how does it work?
Non-K Skylake processors are multiplier locked and motherboard manufacturers won't be able to circumvent this. Rather they have found a way to make base clock overclocking possible with nothing more than a BIOS update.
I36100_4.7Ghz_CPU-Z.jpg
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