Overclocking locked Skylake processors
Good news, budget builders — motherboard makers are releasing BIOS updates that allow non-K Skylake processors to be overclocked.
That isn’t how it’s supposed to be. Like Haswell and Broadwell, Intel “locks” certain 6th Generation Core processors so that users can’t easily make BCLK adjustments to boost base clock frequencies. If you want to overclock, you have to shell out for an unlocked (and pricier) K-series Skylake part.
Well, not anymore. Taking advantage of …read more
