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Intel Skylake Non-K Overclocking BIOSes Pulled (Comment Thread)

I like the fact that they waited for people to go and clear out a lot of the Non-K SKUs in hopes that they would be able to overclocking their lower price CPUs, before implementing this overclocking bug patch. Now all those people are left with their Non-overclocking chips and motherboards.

I can't say i'm surprised as much as i'm disappointed. I remember when Intel announced that they would be implementing overclocking only in select SKUs in Sandy bridge chips. At that time, the price for a 2500k was around 225CDN. Now a 6600k is 360CDN. I mean, I know the Canadian dollar is in the crapper, but even when you account for the exchange disparity, the increase is ridiculous.

No competition and the willingness of many people to cowtow to Intel's lead no matter how ridiculous has lead us to this.
 
It's a combination of low availability and the exchange rate, not just the exchange rate.

Considering these BIOSes are easily available all over the internet, I'm not sure why so many people are acting as if it is immediately removed with no recourse. Asrock seems to have implemented the Prime95 microcode fix into a BIOS version prior to this one that disables SkyOC.

Considering how much you sacrifice just to be able to overclock the non-K chips, this was nothing more than a novelty to begin with.
 
the willingness of many people to cowtow to Intel's lead no matter how ridiculous has lead us to this
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It's a combination of low availability and the exchange rate, not just the exchange rate.

Considering these BIOSes are easily available all over the internet, I'm not sure why so many people are acting as if it is immediately removed with no recourse. Asrock seems to have implemented the Prime95 microcode fix into a BIOS version prior to this one that disables SkyOC.

Considering how much you sacrifice just to be able to overclock the non-K chips, this was nothing more than a novelty to begin with.
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Wow validated that statement in the very next comment. But of course people are wrong, things are honky dory and companies are being charitable by offering us this hardware at such a low price to do with as we see fit.
 
I don't think a lot of people are going to be surprised by this. Intel's business decision side wouldn't have been keen on it as they want people buying the 'K' chips. If there was more competition from AMD or from another manufacturer, maybe they've have let it slide due to being worried about PR backlash and it affecting sales, but with them being so dominant at the moment, even if there was some voices within intel saying 'let it slide' they were probably totally ignored.
 
IRQ Conflict said:
I doubt this will effect anyone really. Bad PR though.
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Agreed people will just find the bios's on websites.
watch next Asrock will release these boards where you cant backwards install a older bios.
 
true or just save the same unlocked bios with a higher # and date.
 
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