ASRock offers OC Mode for non-K Comet Lake-S CPUs on its 400-series

Posted on Friday, May 01 2020 @ 11:45 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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In recent history, Intel has attempted to limit overclocking to K-series processors on Z-series motherboards. TechPowerUp noticed that with the development of the 400-series motherboards, ASRock has managed to cook up a new overclocking mode that will overclock non-K series processors on non-Z series motherboards!

Called Base Frequency Boost (BFB) technology, this technique will work on ASRock motherboards with the B460 and H470 chipsets. It works by manipulating the processor's Power Limit 1 (PL1) mode to run at a higher TDP:
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 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.
It will be interesting to see if Intel cracks down on this (as they've done in the past when similar techniques were marketed by motherboard makers).

ASRock Base Frequency Boost


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