ASRock's latest BIOS Disables Non-K Skylake Overclocking

[WYP]

ASRock's newest BIOS for their Z170 motherboards disables Non-K Skylake Overclocking. Has Intel put their foot down?

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[Kushiro]

Pretty sure theres going to be a way around it.

 

[Wraith]

Pretty sure theres going to be a way around it.

Yup, its called don't update and backup the bios rom.

 

[Doomslayer]

I knew all a long that intel would be pi**ed at this over clocking on non K CPUs. I'm thinking that all of the companies who make intel motherboards have got into trouble over this ASRock is the first company to release an update for the bios i expect the other companies to follow soon enough

 

[Wraith]

I wouldn't be surprised if the overclock feature bios disappeared soon as new revisions of the boards are released.

Edit: To be fair non k chips are already binned so people aren't going to get fantastic Overclockers anyway, if anything this would work in Intels favour and burnt out chips will need replacing

 

[Kushiro]

Yup, its called don't update and backup the bios rom.

Well thats obvious. I was thinking of something more on the lines of a modded bios etc like how RAID TRIM came to Z68

 

[Zoot]

I noticed that when I went looking for a new BIOS to flash my ASRock Z170 Extreme4 to patch the skylake bug.

Oh well... nice while it lasted.