ASRock Bringing Overclocking to Locked Comet Lake-S CPUs, Non-Z Motherboards.by ✓Vs™
ASRock’s Base Frequency Boost (BFB) Technology, which is innate to the brand’s latest Intel 400-series motherboards, will allow consumers to overclock the base clock on locked Intel 10th Generation Comet Lake processors, even with non-Z series motherboards, as per a leaked slide shared by VideoCardz. Intel didn’t mention anything about base clock overclocking on non-Z Comet Lake CPUs in its announcement today, so ASRock’s solution is likely a proprietary workaround. Technically, it’s possible that Intel could eventually disable the ASRock feature with a firmware update; however, this would be a bit odd since CPUs are still running within Intel specifications even if they’re using ASRock BFB. The specifics around ASRock’s BFB technology is a mystery for the time being. From what we can gather from the leaked PowerPoint slide, the motherboard vendor is essentially increasing the processor’s PL1 (power level 1) from the default value to the maximum value and locking it at the
