It appears that Intel did not like the move made by motherboard manufacturers which allow overclocking on non-K Skylake CPUs and has started to force them to issue BIOS updates that disable such features. ASRock seems to be the first victim as its latest BIOS update removes the Sky OC feature.

According to earlier reports coming from XFastest and Benchlife, Intel might itself roll out BIOS update that will disable an sort of overclocking support on non-K Skylake CPUs.

Although certain features were disabled when non-K Skylake overclocking is enabled it still did offer plenty of benefits as it allowed users to pull a lot more performance from their non-K Skylake CPUs and even do overclocking on H170, B170 and B150 motherboards.

ASRock appears to be the first victim and according to the reports, other manufacturers could suffer the same fate as BIOS update has been rolled out for all ASRock motherboards which disables non-K Skylake overclocking and removes the Sky OC feature.

Hopefully, users will be able to find the earlier BIOS image or even decide not to update the BIOS and keep their non-K Skylake overclocking features and Intel will not be able to change that.





Source: via Wccftech.com.