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asrock is in the news again sort of contesting with Intel it's always an interesting thing to watch since they're basically partners to make these motherboards but as Ehrlich has a history with Intel now there's sky OC for overclocking the non k CPUs from Intel was a pretty cool thing and until crack down on it and basically said uh no you can't do that so a shock has put out a firmware patch that basically reverses it but you can still get the sky OC thing if you want it to overclock your 6509 k or something like that now there's some news for broad well II so broad well II is replacing haswell-e that is the next extreme series intel chip it will be on the successor to the x99 platform whatever's championing that but there's a patch so as rock has put out a patch for their x99 motherboards that will theoretically anyway update them to support the broad well II CPU is pretty interesting stuff and that works because broadwell II based on this news will be still running LGA 2011 be something maybe v4 it's on v3 right now and 2011 if it's got the same pin count but it's maybe enabling or disabling some pins that actually makes sense that a firmware patch could sort of hack it to work because with these sockets AMD and intel alike there are pins that are actually unused and in theory and this is what Intel is doing I think in theory the next architecture could say you know let's change some of the way these pins work so let's draw from this one instead or whatever so that is something that could actually work out and you can download the patch now it doesn't really do a whole lot for you until broadwell it comes out certainly this year especially now that we've seen this news from asrock so you can grab that the patch will work only on x99 boards from asrock doesn't work on any other boards of course socket is different other manufacturers will keep an eye on but I haven't seen anything from ACS msi gigabyte or anyone like that and i don't know that they'd be too vocal about it since they historically have not been as sort of as contentious with intel's as rock has been definitely makes them an interesting company to watch so that is the news in terms of broad well II itself I'll just recap this quickly for you the i7 69 the X that is the extreme series broadwell a processor that will have 10 cores and 20 threads according directly to asrock and then other specs that we 25 megabytes cash these 6900 k 8 cores 16 threads so both these are hyper threaded 20 megabyte cash on that one the 6850 k and the 6800 k alike will be six cores 12 threads hyper threaded again and both of those have 15 megabytes of cash they'll likely just have a different clock rate but we don't have final numbers on that yet so that's all the info for broad well II that's available right now and for the patching of the motherboards if you like this type of coverage is always a link in description below for more information you hit the patreon link the post all video helps out directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time