[Rumor]Overclockable Kaby-Lake i3 leaked online

[DarkBlade2117]

Or some people can suck up not having newest BIOs versions and wait for mobo manufactures to release BIOs to BCLK lower end chips. My i3-6100 has been at 4.46GHz for months.

[Prysin]

8 hours ago, Space Reptile said:

reminds me of the G3258 , or Pentium K  , nice budget chip , but useless since you needed a board that could overclock wich was more expensive anyways 

you could OC that chip even on B85 boards. you just had to pick the right one.

 

3 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

there was a bios tweak made availbe that removed that code but kept everthing else by some 3rd parties. 

it's not a tweak. The BIOSes you can get on Overclockers.net and other sites are litterally just the files released PRE-Intel "fix". They are not "fixed". they are the "OG OC Bios".
They do not have support for Kaby lake, and some of them lacks bugfix support for booting up on NVMe drives even.

 

2 hours ago, Apollo Refugio said:

for $180 you could get a true quad core. i know its overclockable, but its still iffy

at true quad core at an amazing 2.7-3.4GHz... which means the standard i3 at 120$ will be better in older games due to higher single threaded performance.

Single threaded performance = clock speed (MHz) * IPC

 

[NumLock21]

Wasn't there a Hyper Threaded Pentium? I bet that price is just as ridiculous as that unlock i3. Both will make no sense in terms of pricing. $100 Pentium with HT, just spend a bit more on a i3. $175+ unlock i3? Just get a i5, you have 2 extra real core and not some make believe ones.

This also reminds me of another thing they did in the past. Let's say got a CPU and want a better one, you can actually buy a CPU scratch off code, apply that and you upgrade your CPU say with more MHz, cache, and other features.

[Necrodead]

Some people just like overclocking, like me! I will not purchase a non-overclockable chip, even for my HTPC, it is simply not an option to not overclock.  

 

I dislike that intel locks their chips, they should just make it so they have no warranty if overclocked and let people take that risk on their own.

 

If this comes out I will upgrade my HTPC from AMD to intel just cause!

 

 

[GDRRiley]

15 hours ago, Prysin said:

it's not a tweak. The BIOSes you can get on Overclockers.net and other sites are litterally just the files released PRE-Intel "fix". They are not "fixed". they are the "OG OC Bios".
They do not have support for Kaby lake, and some of them lacks bugfix support for booting up on NVMe drives even.

many of them are but there are some that are edited brand new bios.

[NumLock21]

Wccf has some chart showing the cheapest i3, having no ht. Can't tell if its legit or just bs.

[bcredeur97]

Intel raising prices due to lack of competition eh? 

 

I told you guys this would happen years ago...