ASUS Skylake Non-K Overclocking BIOS

[tinytomlogan]

We put the BIOS that allows for overclocking of non-K series on Asus boards through its paces.


ASUS Skylake Non-K Overclocking BIOS

 

[realneil]

This sounds like 'bleeding-edge' stuff.

I think I'll wait for the mature, pending BIOS files to pop beforeI try this out.

 

[stampedeadam]

Secondly the CPUz screenshots might show high clock speeds, and indeed they do, but the actual benchmarks don't remotely echo the expected level of performance.

That is disappointing but I think your gut feeling about it being a BIOS issue is correct.

Hardware Unboxed's benchmarks shows good gains from the overclocks on an ASROCK motherboard, even from the Pentium 2-core chip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqWNyhjhE6I

I don't think any of the drawbacks are serious, except for maybe the temp sensor which is an inconvenience. I only know of one game - GRID 2 - which can use AVX extensions, and as for the iGPU/c-states etc. etc. - I wouldn't be unduly bothered.