Will this board overclock a non-K chip

AH_Spacy

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I am building a gaming pc and I want to have a overclocked i3 so it would not bottle neck my RX 480, I have been told that currently the only way to overclock a non-K intel chip is to use a hyper series board that has a separate base clock generator so you can overclock using the baseclock instead of a multiplier. I am planning to use the ASRock B150 GAMING K4/HYPER in my build, everone says that this can overclock it, and so does numerous news articles following OCing non-K chips. But I am hesitant to buy it because the are no reviews videos or anything I could find on this board and even in the specifications it mentions nothing about a separate clock gen.

mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157695&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleKWLess&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleKWLess-_-IM-PC-_-MB+%3E+Motherboards+-+Intel-_-N82E16813157695&gclid=CIzJk4WqiM4CFQckhgodgiUPNw&gclsrc=aw.ds

Article: http://www.eteknix.com/asrock-finds-way-bypass-intels-non-k-bclk-oc-limits/

If some one could verify that this board can actually overclock a non-k chip that would be great, if not, does anyone have any other ideas for a good cpu that doesn't bottle neck a RX 480, and that is semi adorable 100-190ish?
Thank you
 
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Yeah that board should work, it's from this list of non Z170 options: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-hyper-oc-motherboards-available,32165.html

Z170 options and BIOS on this page: http://overclocking.guide/intel-skylake-non-k-overclocking-bios-list/

You can also use BIOS directly from manufacturer's site, just pick ones from January or earlier as they don't have contain Intel's microcode update. Nothing wrong with sticking older BIOS, since manufacturers don't recommend updating BIOS unless you have problems anyway.

Hope this helps.

chenuki

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Yeah that board should work, it's from this list of non Z170 options: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-hyper-oc-motherboards-available,32165.html

Z170 options and BIOS on this page: http://overclocking.guide/intel-skylake-non-k-overclocking-bios-list/

You can also use BIOS directly from manufacturer's site, just pick ones from January or earlier as they don't have contain Intel's microcode update. Nothing wrong with sticking older BIOS, since manufacturers don't recommend updating BIOS unless you have problems anyway.

Hope this helps.
 
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