New intels non K models

[azzazel_99]

So i heard intel is making it so the non k models no longer will be over clockable at all? Anyone else heard this? Jayztwocents mentions it at the beginning of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDWBQPGxGD4

 

[RCFProd]

But this is already known. It is officially no longer possible. However ASRock has found a way with two new B150/H170 Gaming Hyper motherboards including DDR4 OC'ing:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3041861/hardware/asrock-workaround-brings-overclocking-back-to-non-overclockable-skylake-chips.html

It's reported to still be possible ''with a work-around'' on the ASRock Z170(M) Extreme4 and Z170 Pro4 aswell.

 

[azzazel_99]

Ah ok. Well my idea here was since so many people are asking lately about buying non k models and the possibility of overclocking i figured this would put some questions to rest.

 

[kraelic]

It has been this way since sandy bridge. The I3 530 at 4.4GHz going from 133 FSB to 200 FSB was too much of a threat to the more expensive chips. The sandy bridge FSB could not be moved much (103 to 105 MHz) and Intel has been removing the turbo bins from non-K. Skylake opened the FSB again for K tweaking but the board makers found a way to use it on non-K like they figured how to overclock K chips on non-Z boards for haswell and removed, but reintroduced for the pentium anniversary CPU. This non-K Skylake overclocking was unintentional and Intel seems to have leaned on the manufacturers to remove it. Even if you have the Skylake overclocking and refuse to update the bios, Intel has already shown it can push a microcode update in a windows update and blue screen the pentium anniversary overclock on the non-Z motherboards.