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FRONTPAGE ECS and ASUS to Allow Overclocking on Non-Z Motherboards

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Just a few days ago we reported that ASRock had found a backdoor to allow overclocking of unlocked Haswell processors on B and H series motherboards. Well now, according to Xbit Labs, ECS is releasing a BIOS with a feature that does the same on its H87, B85 and, even, H81-based products. Let's remember that the BIOS se...

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I can see a good number of motherboards getting killed, most of those lower end boards aren't designed for overclocking so they might not stand up. Luckily these chips don't draw too much even when overclocked, so guess we will see how this goes.
 
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