Even Intel’s cheap Skylake CPUs can be ramped up with serious overclocking

By Darren Allan

As you’re no doubt aware, for some considerable time now – since Sandy Bridge processors were introduced by Intel – overclocking hasn’t been possible (or rather, any real overclocking hasn’t) and CPUs have been locked at their default clock speed unless you pay a bit more for an unlocked ‘K’ model (and these weren’t even made for the lower-end Core i3 offerings).

There have been slight exceptions to this rule, like the Pentium G3258 anniversary edition, but everything has apparently changed with the newest Skylake processors from Intel, as not just the ‘K’ models but also the standard CPUs from this range can be overclocked, Techspot reports.

There has been plenty of previous speculation that major base clock overclocking could be possible with Skylake, and it was just a matter of motherboard vendors implementing workarounds to bypass the restrictions put in place by Intel.

And this has happened in the case of Asrock, which has come up with a BIOS update that enables overclocking non-‘K’ CPUs on its Z170 motherboards – an update which will be rolled out soon enough, by all accounts.

Core i3 blimey…

And Techspot has tested this out, managing to overclock a Core i3-6100 from its base speed of 3.7GHz …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components