Overclocker Finds Unlock for BCLK on Any Intel Skylake CPU

Overclocking Intel CPUs is normally reserved to the more pricey K-series models but the overclocker Dhenzjhen seems to have broken that limitation and submitted 3 valid scores with an Intel Core i3 6320, overclocked to 4.6GHz. The Core i3 part should normally be completely locked down, but thanks to some clever motherboard modification the overclocker managed to get around that limitation.

The modification seen below is however not the one leading to this possibility, but rather a CPU Vcore readout point. The motherboard used was a SuperMicro H170 based motherboard and Dhenzjhen says the mother is ready to go as it is.

While it is fun to play around with a Core i3 and grab all the high scores for a while, the really good news is found in one of the replies to the records. According to the overclocker, this should be possible with any locked SKL chips no matter what stepping. “Q0s, R0s on i3/i5/i7s ES or retails, no problems.”

Below are the newly submitted scores that took the overclocking world by surprise yesterday. It will be interesting to see what other people will be able to do with other BLCK locked Skylake CPUs in the near future.

You can check out the official information pages for the three results too: Cinebench R11.5, Cinebench R15, and Geekbench3 Multi Core. To be continued …