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Core i9-9900K Achieves 5.50 GHz Overclock on a Z170 Chipset Motherboard

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Is the right link posted, or is this a jab at the motherboard?
I think it's meant to be a jab at the motherboard. Though it's a big fat swing and a miss IMO. Considering the H310 chipset doesn't support overclocking. And, as such, that VRM is probably "sufficiently powerful" to run any "Coffee Lake" CPU @ stock without issues.
 
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To install 8th / 9th gen on Z170 / Z270 mobo you will need.
1.Modded BIOS. If you have popular mobo for OC such as Z170 OCF / MOCF / APEX and maybe Impact then you can grab it somewhere *cough* HWBot *cough*. But if you have for example ASUS Z170-A or MSI gaming carbon etc. you need to do it yourself. Tons of problem will follow and you need to solve it all such as memory compatibility / memory overclocking / PCIE defect etc.
2.Soft mod on CPU with pencil or hard mod on mobo by soldering. Unavoidable effect is 2 pins on socket will meltdown.
 
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That right there is enthusiast quality... against all odds, including hex-editing BIOSes.

Bios editing like this today is more based around extracting and injecting modules, very little hex to be seen.

2.Soft mod on CPU with pencil or hard mod on mobo by soldering. Unavoidable effect is 2 pins on socket will meltdown.

This is also true, FWIW.
 

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I can't help but wonder why even old z170 boards are struggling to power the 9900k. What about 775 chips, with about half the pins, powering monster overclocked quad cores?
 
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I can guarantee that it was not all-core AVX2 small-fft stable in Prime95 latest with AVX offset 0.
 
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What is cool is that with the 8700K and the Z170 OC Formula, I think that AsRock actually provided a bios.
 
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What if you have a Z270 though? I have the Asrock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac - but although it is an awesome, popular overclocking board, I can not find a single BIOS for Coffee Lake?
 
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