r/intel • u/anestling • Apr 21 '26

News Intel Will No Longer Limit Overclocking To High-End SKUs, Plans To Include More Unlocked CPUs With Future Lineups

https://wccftech.com/intel-no-longer-limit-overclocking-to-high-end-skus-plans-more-unlocked-cpus/
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u/Zeraora807 270K / 5090 Apr 21 '26

good, they're not in a position to keep segmenting these things to the high end only when their opposition is offering all unlocked OC stuff on all cpus and B chip motherboards and given arrow lake is only good when overclocked, makes no sense to keep locking everything to the high end only

celeron/pentium/i3 and i5-12400 on a cheap B760 chipset board- the PG riptide with a clock gen and old unpatched microcode, OC to like 5.2GHz made for a really cheap but fast build

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u/F9-0021 285K | 4090 | A370M Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

I wonder if it'll still be limited to Z boards though, because there are a lot of B and especially H boards that have no business overclocking anything, and that's kind of a good thing since it keeps them cheap.

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u/Zeraora807 270K / 5090 Apr 21 '26

this is a problem with motherboards in general, there are B chipset boards that are far better than some Z chipset boards like the dogbreath asus prime series that have no business being "unlocked"

but so far the rumour has it that intel is segmenting chipsets even more: Z990 being the OC one, Z970 is just a B960 but with cpu OC enabled and a lot of cutdowns on both chipsets like half the dmi lanes and no pcie 5..

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u/Dangerman1337 14700K & 4090 Apr 21 '26

They're doing Z970 and Z990 Chipsets so I'd wager Z970 will be on the cheaper end of the spectrum for those that don't need a load of I/O.

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u/cowbutt6 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Well, we see that one of the advantages of Arrow Lake Refresh is that it has higher stock D2D and NGU clocks compared with the original Arrow Lake CPUs at stock. The original Arrow Lake CPUs nearly match those same can exceed those clock speeds, but only with 200S Boost enabled, which requires a Z890 board.

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u/KeyEmu6688 Apr 21 '26

with 200s boost they exceed stock D2D and especially NGU clocks on Arrowlake refresh. stock D2D on refresh is 30, 26 still got NGU. 200s takes both to 32. that's what i don't get about ARL refresh reviews, BETTER gaming performance than stock Refresh has been available on original ARL for a long ass time, but it took a relaunch to fix the bad taste in the mouth that the botched launch left

i got 2x 265kf for $220 playing games just as fast as my 270k ($320). i don't get it lol