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A comment on Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with microcode update. Parent comment

Re:Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with mic... by Retric on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:39AM (#11072595)
I have been 'required' to install BIOS updates before. PS3 lost capability's at one point in an update and new games forced that update without mentioning it on the packaging.

"Note that Intel paired this with a bug fix for the freezing during Prime95 - if you want the bug fix, you have to let them lock down your clock. "

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Re:Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with mic... by Tepix on Friday February 12, 2016 @06:50AM (#11086599)
You are using an undocumented feature of the CPU, from Intel's point of view it's an unintended loophole.

Also you can try to separate the Prime95 bugfix from the clock lockdown. Good luck :-)

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