{"id":86848,"date":"2016-03-10T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86848"},"modified":"2016-03-10T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:19:20","slug":"asrock-circumvents-overclocking-restrictions-on-non-k-skylake-cpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86848-asrock-circumvents-overclocking-restrictions-on-non-k-skylake-cpus","title":{"rendered":"ASRock circumvents overclocking restrictions on non-K Skylake CPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to ASRock working their wizardry,\u00a0Intel&#8217;s latest microcode update that was sent out to\u00a0motherboard manufacturers <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86099-intel-to-stop-non-k-skylake-cpus-from-overclocking.html\" target=\"_blank\">removed a loophole<\/a> that enabled users to overclock\u00a0their otherwise locked non-K Intel Skylake CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>ASRock now appear to have a solution, however, having somehow\u00a0re-enabled\u00a0base\u00a0overclocking for non-K Skylake CPUs with two of their newer motherboards.<\/p>\n<p>ASRock\u2019s method of re-enabling base overclocking involves an\u00a0external clock generator, which circumvents the update that disabled overclocking.<\/p>\n<p>The generator allows users to\u00a0increase a non-K Skylake CPU&#8217;s\u00a0clock speed in\u00a00.0625 MHz increments.<\/p>\n<p>The two ASRock motherboards that offer this new functionality are the Fatal1ty H170 Performance\/Hyper and the Fatal1ty B150 Gaming K4\/Hyper.<\/p>\n<p>This feature isn&#8217;t specifically being advertised by ASRock as they&#8217;re likely doing all they can to mitigate a backlash from Intel.<\/p>\n<p>More information on these motherboards and the actual method of overclocking should surface relatively soon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/components\/motherboard\/matthew-wilson\/asrock-re-enables-overclocking-on-non-k-intel-cpus-with-new-motherboards\/\" target=\"_blank\">KitGuru<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More on Intel<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Intel SSDs to soon reach 10TB capacities\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86348-intel-ssds-to-soon-reach-10tb-capacities.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel SSDs to soon reach 10TB capacities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Intel to stop non-K Skylake CPUs from overclocking\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86099-intel-to-stop-non-k-skylake-cpus-from-overclocking.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel to stop non-K Skylake CPUs from overclocking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Intel Core i7-6700K overclocked to over 7GHz\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/85945-intel-core-i7-6700k-overclocked-to-over-7ghz.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel Core i7-6700K overclocked to over 7GHz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overclocking is back for non-K Intel Skylake CPUs, thanks to ASRock and a bit of wizzadry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":86850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5204,12465,1085,1727,13164,1969,6205,11568],"class_list":["post-86848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-asrock","tag-cpu","tag-hardware-2","tag-intel","tag-motherboards","tag-news-2","tag-overclocking","tag-skylake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86852,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86848\/revisions\/86852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}