Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update (techspot.com)

jjslash writes: For a few years now, Intel CPU overclocking has been limited to more expensive Core i5 and Core i7 'K' processors. Skylake launched this year with the rumor of strong non-K processor overclocking through an adjustable base clock, but that never eventuated... until now. In overclocking circles it was rumored that BCLK (base clock) overclocking might become a possibility in Skylake processors, but it would be up to motherboard manufacturers to circumvent Intel's restrictions. Asrock, Asus and a few other motherboard manufacturers are said to be issuing a BIOS update soon that will unlock base clock overclocking on Z170 motherboards. TechSpot has got an early look, overclocking a locked Core i3-6100 to 4.7GHz on air cooling.

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Re:Fake overclocking

[hairyfeet]

I personally really don't see the point of OCing anymore, I really don't. back when I had the Celeron 300, the one that would OC to 450Mhz? yes that made sense to try because we only had a single core and your CPU was being made obsolete almost before you got it out the box. I remember going from 400Mhz to 1200Mhz in like a 3 year period, it was insane.

But now what is the point? My AMD FX-8320E can easily have the base clocked cranked up to around 4.5Ghz-4.6Ghz.....and? What program am I gonna use that I'm really gonna feel that difference? Hell the stock is 3.2Ghz with a 4Ghz turbo and with 8 cores its not like I'm having to sit around waiting for tasks to complete like I was in the old single core days so all I'd be doing is blowing through power to shave a few seconds off a render, so what? I have yet to find a game or program that my chip can't just blow through and I have zero doubt that the same is true for every Intel made in the last 7+ years!

So there is really only 2 groups I can see where this might be a selling point...no scratch that as I was gonna say the first would be those doing heavy simulations like wave simulations or big engineering projects but those guys aren't running low price CPUs, they are running dual Xeon workstations, so I guess that just leaves the "gotta have a big ePeen!" types that don't know shit about CPU arches and think cranking an i3 is gonna somehow make them competitive with an i7, so for them...yay I guess?