BLCK ‘Non-K’ CPU overclocking motherboards for 12th Gen Alder Lake chips are here but Intel doesn’t seem to be too happy about them.
Intel’s 12th Generation Non-K Desktop CPUs are amongst some of the best mainstream & budget tier chips that one can find on the market right now, giving the best overall performance at an eye-catching price point. Recently, there have been motherboard vendors such as MSI and ASRock who have revealed their new B660 series designs that rock external ‘BCLK’ clock generators that allow users to overclock their Non-K CPUs, but it looks like Intel isn’t happy with these products & in fact, wants to make sure that no such products exist in the market. Currently, there are only two products on the market that allow BCLK overclocking on Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake Non-K CPUs. These include the MSI MAG B660M Mortar Max WiFi DDR4 & ASRock’s B660M PG Riptide. These aren’t fairly expensive motherboards and with both of them being DDR4 variants, they have the potential to attract a wider audience in the budget segment considering the DDR5 prices are still way too high. The other main attraction of these motherboards is the fact that they support BCLK overclocking on Non-K Alder Lake CPUs. AMD EPYC CPUs Significantly Outperform Intel Xeon In Cloud Servers, Study Reveals
MSI MAG B660M Mortar Max WiFi DDR4 Motherboard
Starting with the motherboards first, the MSI MAG B660M Mortar Max WiFi DDR4 comes with a 14-phase VRM design that features an extended heatsink solution.
