The first time about the possibility to overclock Skylake-S processors we learned in December, when first was used motherboard Supermicro on chipset Intel H170. About this loophole later learned all the major motherboard manufacturers to implement support for overclocking Skylake-S they updated the firmware. Now, according to the comments of official Intel representatives , the corporation is ready to fight with unauthorized processor overclock for models that do not have a free multiplier. To do this, motherboard manufacturers will be strongly encouraged to cover the overclocking Skylake-S by increasing the frequency of the base generator in future BIOS versions .
Recall that even defective as a result of overclocking Skylake-K processors with the free multiplier are not covered by Intel warranty policy.
Overclocked Processors Skylake-S could not make full use of all the power-saving function and a built-in graphics system.