i5 6400 overclock project

[honeytrail429]

Hey guys, I just have a few questions about not K over clocking of a b150 chipset. As far as I know you cannot overclock on a b150 board, however I have heard (without much other information) that you can run a non k 6th gen cpu (i5 6400 in this case) on a z170 board and manually overclock it this way. I’m assuming I would need to flash a different BIOS though designed to work with sky lake cards? Does anyone have any information on how one would go about a project like this. I’m building my gf a pc, and am using an old i5 6400 i had lying around and building around that. I haven’t bought the motherboard yet so suggestions for this project would be appreciated as well! Thanks in advance for all the helpful replies I know i’m going to get!

[Haro]

you can only change the BCLK for a non k chip on a z series board 

[Fasauceome]

14 minutes ago, honeytrail429 said:

I’m assuming I would need to flash a different BIOS though designed to work with sky lake cards?

Well, it's not a card, it's a CPU. Also, all Z170 motherboards are natively compatible with all skylake CPUs, the only update that would be required would be for 7th gen kabylake.

 

Sometimes, BCLK works, but it tends to be unstable, so do not expect to get any performance boost. You would be very lucky to get a couple hundred MHz.

[Jurrunio]

This function is present on older BIOS and is later locked out by Intel through BIOS update. Once new BIOS got flashed in, seems like there's no turning back. Make sure that when you buy the mobo, verify it has the non K OC BIOS from the seller.