Historically, Intel has separated its processors and accompanying chipsets from overclockable and non-overclockable ones. This means that only the CPU “K” can be overclocked. With the latest generation, only some parts of the lineup are K-CPUs, such as the Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K, etc.
These processors can only be overclocked on “Z” chipset based motherboards, such as Z390 e Z490. However, it appears that Asrock has developed new technology that can overclock non-K CPUs on non-Z motherboards, which is pretty impressive.
Call technology Base Frequency Boost (BFB), will allow overclocking of non-K processors on chipsets such as B460 e H470. How will it work?
Well, ASRock will take the TDP of the CPU and will run it in PL1 mode, which boosts the 65W TDP processor and turns it into a 125W TDP beast. This, of course, will be user-selective and case-dependent, which means that if your cooling system can't handle all that heat coming out of overclocked processors, they're unlikely to hit the clock Asrock is aiming for. .
