While most motherboard manufacturers have already released BIOS updates for Z170 chipset based motherboards that bring non-K Skylake overclocking, thanks to Stasio, non-K overclocking is now supported on most, if not all, Gigabyte motherboards.

According to a report from HWBOT.org, Stasio, who is one of the main contributors when it comes to BIOS updates that support non-K Skylake overclocking, has now uploaded a couple of new BIOS updates taking Gigabyte's list of supported motherboards up to nine.

The list includes the Z170X-SOC Force (F6f), Z170X-Gaming G1 (F7c), Z170X-Gaming GT (F6c), Z170X-Gaming 7 (F7d), Z170X-Gaming 5 (F5g), Z170X-Gaming 3 (F5j), Z170X-UD5 (F5i), Z170X-UD3 (F5f) and the Z170XP-SLI (F6g) motherboards.

While these BIOS updates unlock BCLK overclocking on non-K Skylake CPUs, they still come with the same restrictions seen before, including disabled IGP, lack of C-states, Turbo mode and lower performance for AVX instructions. On a good note, these BIOS updates have support for memory dividers with odd rations such as DDR4-2533 and DDR4-3600.

You can find all the BIOS updates over at HWBOT.org forum thread and if you leave all settings at default, you should not have any problems with IGP, C-States and those other restrictions that come with non-K Skylake overclocking.



Source: HWBOT.org.