Updated: Locked Skylake CPUs may be overclockable soon
Intel's unlocked Pentium G3258 CPU-or the Anniversary Edition-has been a constant presence in our System Guides for over a year now. For under a hundred bucks, that two-core, two-thread processor can reach stratospheric clock speeds with a little tweaking. Intel didn't announce a successor to the G3258 when Skylake rolled around, and the dual-core wonder has had problems with some games. Budget builders may need a new hero, and Anandtech says that hero will be motherboard manufacturers. Supermicro, ASRock, and Asus seem to have found ways to enable base-clock overclocking on locked Skylake CPUs.
As Scott noted in our review of the Core i7-6700K, the base clock (BCLK) is no longer tethered to the chip's PCIe and DMI clocks. That means overclocking a CPU using the BCLK won't throw other parts of the ...