intel should fix the problem by fixing the CPU. or should have just let it run its course until there next refresh. besides intel doesn't make their money off of personal PC's" they make there money from corp. and xeons, including apple based products and pre assembled PC/Laptops from dell, hp lenovo... the parts they actually sell to pc enthusiast such as us is marginally small in comparison.
and in other news on the sites it is not AsRock doing ; but, yet it is the greed from intel making them issue bios updates, btw .. asus, gigabyte and msi can do the same as the asrock sky OC, i'm sure intel is just having a harder time making them cooperate/ some of the bioses from asus and gigabyte are "modded/hacked" without the help of the vendors and they have worked with great success so it's not like cant just buy an asus z170-a and do the same.
until i see proof of intel's non-k cpus in masses blowing up, this is just pure greed, and the fix is a coop out to scare people.
if it works, don't fix it, why is intel messing with something that works 99% of the time?
and why anger your customer base for no apparent reason?
the sad thing is AsRock could really use some serious fixes with their boards but if every board now needs a bios that knocks out sky OC but in return gives you front panel usb3.1 (think 6k+, or any "+" versions for that matter) when it should work to begin with,? then you mines as well just return the thing. honestly i think bios updates can be very essential until all the bugs are worked out on the board.
I also do not believe that by "taking away" OC via bclk that intel will make more money causing people to grab a k version. if people planned a budget build to OC and now cant any more. budget is still budget. they may look then for something cheaper,and many people then turn to amd in that case. in that case intel a little money is still better than no money at all .