Asrock releases Hyper-OC boards for non-K Skylake

[NumLock21]

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If you haven’t been keeping up on the Hyper OC boards, you might think they are just your run of the mill motherboards, but they actually have special overclocking features.

Asrock has released 2 of their hyper-oc series motherboards, allowing overclocking on non-k Intel skylake processors. Unlike their previous method, which also did the same thing, but was short lived as words got out, Intel immediately order Asrock and other board makers to release a bios update to disable this feature. For those that still want the oc feature, still can, just by not updating to the latest bios. But sometimes bios update can add certain fixes or improvements. Enter Asrock's hyper-oc series motherboards. So far the only 2 available now are the, Fatal1ty H170 Performance/Hyper and Fatal1ty B150 Gaming K4/Hyper. Both runs on socket 1151 for Intel Skylake processors, 64gb of ddr4 2133 max, 2 x16 slots for cfx at x16 by x4, 6x sata ports, M.2, Sata Express (H170 only) and 10 phase power. What's set these boards apart from their other non Z170 models, is the addition of a external clock generator, allowing overclocking features for non-K Skylake cpus. even when your bios is up to date. Not sure how long they will last on the market, but if all goes well, Asrock might release others boards that's part of their Hyper-OC series.

 

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-hyper-oc-motherboards-available,32165.html

http://www.asrock.com/microsite/hyper/

 

 

[That Norwegian Guy]

mATX or GTFO

[0ld_Chicken]

what is different about it this time?  Why wouldn't Intel squash this too

[Sakkura]

This song and dance is getting annoying. It's not very useful for people when the OC gets enabled, then disabled, then enabled another way, then maybe disabled soon... not reliable, and damn confusing.

 

I wish they could just come to an agreement with Intel to allow some limited non-K OC. Like they used to have with Sandy/Ivy Bridge, where non-K CPUs with Turbo Boost could still be overclocked by 4 bins (~0.4 GHz).

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Honestly, if you really want to OC your CPU why not just get a K...

[themaniac]

2 minutes ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

what is different about it this time?  Why wouldn't Intel squash this too

i may be wrong, but it looks like its hardware and not software this time, but yeah intel could stop them if the laws allow them

[aisle9]

2 minutes ago, Hans Christian | Teri said:

Honestly, if you really want to OC your CPU why not just get a K...

Because I'm expected to overclock a K. Nobody expects a 4.2GHz i3!

[Hans Christian | Teri]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

Because MOAR POWER!!!!

You would get significantly more power with an unlocked multiplier though...

[0ld_Chicken]

3 minutes ago, themaniac said:

i may be wrong, but it looks like its hardware and not software this time, but yeah intel could stop them if the laws allow them

I guess thats what he meant by this huh?  We'll see how it goes!

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What set these apart from other one is its built in clock generator.

 

[NumLock21]

2 hours ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

mATX or GTFO

Asrock hears you

[JoeOCD]

Cool, I can overclock a pentium g4400!

[Energycore]

No point in using the B150 or H170 chipsets if these are more expensive than the $110 Z170 motherboards you can use for BCLK OC. And Z170 supports higher RAM clocks which is very relevant.

[stconquest]

15 minutes ago, Energycore said:

No point in using the B150 or H170 chipsets if these are more expensive than the $110 Z170 motherboards you can use for BCLK OC. And Z170 supports higher RAM clocks which is very relevant.

Unless of course you get to:

 

1.  Keep your iGPU active

 

2.  Keep your C-States.

 

3.  Keep your per core thermal sensors.

 

4.  Keep your full speed L1 cache.

 

5.  Keep you AVX instruction set.

 

Credit to Magetank for first revealing these facts to me.

 

[Energycore]

2 minutes ago, stconquest said:

Unless of course you get to:

 

1.  Keep your iGPU active

 

2.  Keep your C-States.

 

3.  Keep your per core thermal sensors.

 

4.  Keep your full speed L1 cache.

 

5.  Keep you AVX instruction set.

 

Yeah that's fair. Guess we can't have it all but C-States and per-core thermal sensors are important.

[Fetzie]

2 hours ago, Energycore said:

Yeah that's fair. Guess we can't have it all but C-States and per-core thermal sensors are important.

"my oc in unstable! "

" how hot is it running? "

" I don't know I had to disable the temperature probes :("

[Gdourado]

Can the h170 model run DDR4 2666 or 2800?

[GarnetDevil]

9 hours ago, Hans Christian | Teri said:

Honestly, if you really want to OC your CPU why not just get a K...

Because I like to OC the shit out of my entry level i3

 

 

[aisle9]

6 hours ago, GarnetDevil said:

Because I like to OC the shit out of my entry level i3

 

 

Entry level = Pentium

 

Don't sell your i3 short

[NumLock21]

5 hours ago, aisle9 said:

Entry level = Pentium

 

Don't sell your i3 short

no celeron = entry level

[aisle9]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

no celeron = entry level

OG Celeron = overclocking old school

Modern Celeron = failed computer school

[NumLock21]

8 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

OG Celeron = overclocking old school

Modern Celeron = failed computer school

http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=9SIA24G41G0238

[SliceT]

Asrock going to intels black list  
That's the spirit, a true overclocker always bend whats possible and whats not! 

[patrickjp93]

3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

no celeron = entry level

Core M, Atom, Quark...

[NumLock21]

22 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Core M, Atom, Quark...

But their mobile. For desktop it's still the Celeron.

[patrickjp93]

8 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

But their mobile. For desktop it's still the Celeron.

You can get development boards for Core M and Atom so...