Cometlake 10100 Clock

[coolmrschill]

Hello my fellow readers, I recently purchased a Intel 10th generation 10100 4 core with hyperthreading and I am quite happy. I understand Intel's marketing that non-K skew processors aren't "unlocked" for overclocking, but with my Z490M motherboard you can modify BLCK clock up to 102.9, for a mild clock boost(CPU hits 4.42GHz max). Any BLCK clock over 102.9 it won't boot. My question is knowing the amazing headroom for thermals on the 10100 is there any possible ways to get around this non-k cpu overclock detection or is there another way that I could suck some more performance out of this little processor. I really do feel that this processor has great capability with high clock numbers, but it's just a matter of getting there. Thanks for your time.

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, coolmrschill said:

with my Z490M motherboard you can modify BLCK clock up to 102.9, for a mild clock boost(CPU hits 4.42GHz max). Any BLCK clock over 102.9 it won't boot

Are you sure this is a firmware lock? It probably is not stable past this point.

 

BCLK is more than just the CPU clock, and tuning can result in a lot of problems because it extends to pretty much every part of the system 

[coolmrschill]

22 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

Are you sure this is a firmware lock? It probably is not stable past this point.

This is where I got my information from https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i3-10100/22.html CTRL+F "Overclock"

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For future generations, Intel added code to their ME Management engine to validate BCLK frequency during POST; if above 103 MHz, startup will be refused.

notice the 100^th percentile

[Fasauceome]

That's really unusual. 

 

But since intel programmed it in, I highly doubt you'll find a trick to get around it easily, and a custom BIOS version would be pretty sketchy.

[svmlegacy]

There's really nothing more than can be done without insider knowledge and intention firmware modifications.

[coolmrschill]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

That's really unusual. 

it truly is, i understand profit margins and stuff for intel but this processor just has so much juice up its sleeve. hopefully someday somebody will figure out some type of bypass

[Guest]

Increasing BCLK past 100mhz is bound for HDD corruption because it increases the South Bridge frequency bus and sure as shit will F your windows install. 

 

The cpu on the other hand, if free from the BUS/reference clock, you could go further. 

 

Back in the day VIA chipsets where the same way. So you looked for NForce 2 boards instead and you could clock the chips.

 

Intel simply locks the multi on non K chips because that's litterally the only way to OC an intel chip. AMD is now the same way.

 

I personally dont dig corrupting my operating systems and the 2mhz increase isnt worth the risk for 99% of everybody. 

 

Just my 2 cents on the deal. Buy a K series chip and off you go!!

[coolmrschill]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Increasing BCLK past 100mhz is bound for HDD corruption because it increases the South Bridge frequency bus and sure as shit will F your windows install. 

 

The cpu on the other hand, if free from the BUS/reference clock, you could go further. 

 

Back in the day VIA chipsets where the same way. So you looked for NForce 2 boards instead and you could clock the chips.

 

Intel simply locks the multi on non K chips because that's litterally the only way to OC an intel chip. AMD is now the same way.

 

I personally dont dig corrupting my operating systems and the 2mhz increase isnt worth the risk for 99% of everybody. 

 

Just my 2 cents on the deal. Buy a K series chip and off you go!!

the main drive is a 970 evo, its a free experiment i will keep this thread updated if anything gets F-ed up