MSI offers BIOS update to allow non-K Skylake CPUs to be overclocked

[GalacticRuler]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jon-martindale/msi-now-offers-non-k-skylake-overclocking-too/

 

MSI has now released updates for all of its Z-170 mobos to make them capable of applying clock speed boosts to all Skylake CPUs.

 

Now that both ASRock and MSI have released BIOS updates to allow overclocking of all CPUs on the Z170 chipset, will the rest of the motherboard manufacturers do this too? And will Intel put a stop to this?

[Atmos]

I feel like intels going to have them stop.

then again, very doubtful that either would have gone through with this without first running it past intel.

 

Then again... why would you pay more for a "k" skew if you can overclock the non "k" skew.

[Kobathor]

I don't think Intel can stop it. After all, it's not illegal to overclock a non-K sku, it's just not made to be overclocked.

[GalacticRuler]

I don't think Intel can stop it. After all, it's not illegal to overclock a non-K sku, it's just not made to be overclocked.

They attempted to with the G3258 and Windows 10. But Microsoft patched it.

[Lays]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jon-martindale/msi-now-offers-non-k-skylake-overclocking-too/

 

Now that both ASRock and MSI have released BIOS updates to allow overclocking of all CPUs on the Z170 chipset, will the rest of the motherboard manufacturers do this too? And will Intel put a stop to this?

 

Asus has it as well, just not super public yet

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[2FA]

I don't get why people are so skeptical, you could do the same thing with Ivy/Sandy Bridge.

[Lays]

I don't get why people are so skeptical, you could do the same thing with Ivy/Sandy Bridge.

 

 

People weren't hitting 6 ghz on i3's from SB or Ivy purely from BCLK overclocking lol

[2FA]

People weren't hitting 6 ghz on i3's from SB or Ivy purely from BCLK overclocking lol

Did I say they were? I purely meant why people are skeptical of Intel allowing OEMs to enable overclocking of locked chips.

[Lotus]

I don't get why people are so skeptical, you could do the same thing with Ivy/Sandy Bridge.

No, you couldn't. You could not BCLK overclocked locked multiplier Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPUs because the PCIe bus was tied to the baseclock, and +/- 2-4% difference in baseclock (sometimes up to 5%) resulted in instability and crashing due to this. Basically, you could go from 100 to 104 maybe. Now, we're talking about going from 100 to 130-135, which is actually an overclock worth doing. This is BIG news. You can overclock i3 CPUs now, as well as the i5-6500. This hasn't happened since 2009.

[Arty]

I feel like intels going to have them stop.

then again, very doubtful that either would have gone through with this without first running it past intel.

 

Then again... why would you pay more for a "k" skew if you can overclock the non "k" skew.

i would just think the K ones OC higher and better in this case.

just like 980ti and 980ti OC/KingPin Etc.,

[Bouzoo]

I'm interested in stability. For instance, is a 6600 as stable as 6600K when OC? Same goes for others.

[96Evo]

i would just think the K ones OC higher and better in this case.

just like 980ti and 980ti OC/KingPin Etc.,

They both oc the same, it just 1 you can play with both multiplier and bclk while the other you can only play with bclk.

 

 

I'm interested in stability. For instance, is a 6600 as stable as 6600K when OC? Same goes for others.

 

I oc'ed mine 6500 to 4.3GHz and it is stable and I did do some benchmark against 4790k, single core cinebench it beat my 4790k 4.5GHz by 2 pts

It can be oc more but I'm fine with 4.3, and I'm sure 4.7GHz is achievable

[MeltingPoint]

Kinda similar with what happened to the Haswell chips that were overclocked without using a Z-series motherboard. Intel patched that with a microcode update on the bios.

[GalacticRuler]

Kinda similar with what happened to the Haswell chips that were overclocked without using a Z-series motherboard. Intel patched that with a microcode update on the bios.

Except they can't fix a hardware problem in chips that have already been designed and placed on the shelves. No microcode update can prevent this. If a company builds a 50-foot wall, someone will always make a 51-foot ladder.