Friday, May 1st 2020
ASRock Enables Overclocking on Non-Z Motherboards for 10th Generation Non-K Comet Lake CPUs
Historically, Intel has separated its processors and chipsets that accompany them to overclockable and non-overclockable ones. That means that only the "K" CPUs can be overclocked. With the latest generation, only some parts of the lineup are K CPUs, like the Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K, etc. Those processors could only be overclocked one put in motherboards based on "Z" chipset, like Z390 and Z490. However, it seems like ASRock has developed a new technology that will overclock non-K CPUs on non-Z motherboards, which is quite impressive.
Called the Base Frequency Boost (BFB) technology, it will allow for overclocking the non-K processors on chipsets like B460 and H470. How will that work you might wonder? Well, ASRock will take the TDP of the CPUs and make it run in the PL1 mode, which increases the processor TDP form 65 W and turns it into a 125 W TDP beast. This will, of course, be user selective and case dependent, meaning that if your cooling system can not handle that much heat coming out from the overclocked processors, it is unlikely that they will reach the peak clocks ASRock can target. You can check out the slide below:
Called the Base Frequency Boost (BFB) technology, it will allow for overclocking the non-K processors on chipsets like B460 and H470. How will that work you might wonder? Well, ASRock will take the TDP of the CPUs and make it run in the PL1 mode, which increases the processor TDP form 65 W and turns it into a 125 W TDP beast. This will, of course, be user selective and case dependent, meaning that if your cooling system can not handle that much heat coming out from the overclocked processors, it is unlikely that they will reach the peak clocks ASRock can target. You can check out the slide below:
22 Comments on ASRock Enables Overclocking on Non-Z Motherboards for 10th Generation Non-K Comet Lake CPUs
ASRock is nice, Intel is not nice. Intel should allow overclocking of its entire lineup, because the lineup needs to be more competitive these days.
If this is really the same thing and Asrock knows it (as it is advertising it) then intel will most likely cause some backlash to them.
And this isn't even overclocking in that same sense, max multiplier is still max multiplier. This is just a way to sustain lower boost clocks for slightly longer, so that what you buy is [kinda] what you get, unlike what Intel has been peddling with its TVB and laughable TDP figures.
This will get locked down in day's and doesn't matter anyway, without an external clock generator for pciex and everything attached to it, usb sata, etc it's not going to add upto much.
10400 is already 4.0Ghz allcore out of the box, with this hack Asrock only states that you would actually be able to get that 4.00GHz.
Thee is no need to overclock the BUS at all, just get some nice power limit headroom.
You think that's the only thing you can exploit by sticking to an early BIOS revision? Skylake non-K BCLK is hardlocked by Intel ME on any recent microcode.
I remember someone speculating the reason was that "it's not a K chip even it has an unlocked multiplier" which doesn't even sound impossible to me..
B460 product page:
ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/201841/intel-b460-chipset.html
H470 product page:
ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/201835/intel-h470-chipset.html
Gigabyte models:
www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Intel-H470-B460
Asrock models:
www.asrock.com/mb/index.asp#1200