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a little over two months ago Intel said nope no more overclocking r9k intel skylake CPUs what a letdown right especially for those of us who purchase any of these CPUs right here until us fix this issue via a micro code update that has now been included in every bios of every motherboard that you could possibly purchase on sites like Newegg and amazon what this means is that if you went out and purchased a z170 motherboard today you would likely have a motherboard that included a BIOS that featured this Intel micro code update but what if we were able to downgrade our BIOS to the older skylake overclockable version there are plenty of sites online that feature these old BIOS updates they haven't been removed since they've been posted so I'm wondering can I actually downgrade my motherboards BIOS to one that allows for basically overclocking and be able to do just that I'm going to give it a shot and I'm going to use the pentium g 4400 as my guinea pig stay tuned the first thing I had to do was hop online and find the old BIOS update the correspondent to my particular motherboard I found it in the first website I clicked and I went head and gave it a download when the download was finished I plugged in my USB thumb drive and then simply extracted the BIOS update into its folder it should be as simple as that I then restarted my computer and prompted it into its BIOS via the delete button from the home screen I clicked f8 which stands for cue flash and then I found my BIOS update inside of my thumb drives folder everything installed correctly and I was prompted back into my home screen everything looked pretty good up to this point now what I had to do was restart my computer again and this time go into my newly downgraded BIOS to see if I could actually face clock overclock and the answer was yes I could within the CPU frequency controller tab I was very easily able to change my base clock frequency from 102 basically whatever I wanted I change it to where my actual CPU frequency was just above 4 gigahertz keep in mind that raising the base clock frequency will also raise your memory frequency so I don't recommend turning on XMP profile especially if you have RAM that's considerably fast around 3,000 megahertz or higher I also decided to manually raise my voltage as well from its standard 1.0 8 volts which I think would be under volting or CPU at a for bigger frequency to 1.2 which i think is a safe value for now i restarted the computer after saving my settings within the bios and boom the overclock stuck I confirmed it via hardware monitor and the bios itself after another simple restart while my Geekbench scores were not considerably higher my sentiment score definitely was which I think would contribute to a few extra fps in almost any game you decide to play all other things equal so what does this mean well if you decide to purchase a z170 motherboard right now and a non K Intel skylake CPU you can still actually base clock overclock as long as you're okay with the downgrading of BIOS if you're comfortable with that things are looking pretty good things could go south however if Intel decides to push this micro update via a Windows 10 update you would almost assuredly experience a blue screen of death if you were base clock overclocking a non K CPU with that micro code embedded into Windows 10 so to prevent this I recommend googling how to disable Windows 10 automatic updates and also being familiar with how to uninstall security updates that Windows 10 may have already installed in your system in the background for now I do recommend still purchasing non K CPUs with the intent of overclocking them it looks fairly safe as long as you are comfortable with downgrading any BIOS for any motherboard that you might be purchasing in the near future if you have any questions or concerns or comments be sure to leave those in the comments sections below if you think the video deserved a thumbs up and go ahead and give it one of those but if you think we did a terrible job of explaining things go ahead and give it a thumbs down be sure to subscribe if you haven't already and stay tuned for more interesting technology-based videos because that seems to be the in thing right now and that's what we'll continue to do this is science studio thanks for learning with us you