What do you think Intel is going to do about Asrock circumventing their Non-K OC

[MasterSpryce]

As you may or may not know Asrock has found a way to circumvention OC restrictions on their Non-K cpus(again). More Info: http://www.techpowerup.com/220703/as...bclk-oc-limits

Could they sue Asrock?
Could they cut ties?

[Dayks]

I am pretty sure that this is just what everyone was already doing with their z170 boards, all that they have done is brought that to a couple of their h170 and b150 boards.

I believe I also read that this disables the power saving features on the cards.

I don't think Intel will care or do a thing.

[spacein_vader]

I don't think Intel will care or do a thing.

I don't think you know Intel very well. I suspect ASRock will quietly put out an update that removes the functionality before they suffer from unfortunate restocking problems and long lead times for Intel components.

[DanceswithUnix]

I don't think you know Intel very well. I suspect ASRock will quietly put out an update that removes the functionality before they suffer from unfortunate restocking problems and long lead times for Intel components.

Yep, that is exactly what I would expect. No direct retaliation, just a note to say that motherboard chipsets are currently in short supply, and their allocation is currently 50% of what they asked for. The legal system is far too slow for something like this.

It will be interesting if motherboards all go the way of FM1 boards, where the CPU is an SoC and there isn't a supporting chipset. I wonder if Intel will keep using some sort of external silicon that they can call a chipset even when it doesn't make sense just to keep some control over motherboard production, kind of like a hardware dongle.

[scaryjim]

... It will be interesting if motherboards all go the way of FM1 boards, where the CPU is an SoC and there isn't a supporting chipset. I wonder if Intel will keep using some sort of external silicon that they can call a chipset even when it doesn't make sense just to keep some control over motherboard production, kind of like a hardware dongle.

I'm pretty sure they will for desktop - they'll chop something out of the SoC so you need to hang an extra chip off the DMI link. It'll not only help them to keep control, they'll also have something else to make a profit on!

[xLegendary]

Is there any official response from intel? or even what do they tell when it come to possible sanctions...
I know they want to be innovative, but intel is someone you don't to have your name in their black list.

[OffWaveSurfer]

Last I checked that feature had been removed by ASRock with a BIOS update, not sure how they've distributed it but fairly certain it affects all boards no matter what you do about downloading the BIOS or not yourself, kind of sad to see an innovation like that get taken out by a business model.