ASRock Z690 Taichi Razer Edition supports 12th generation Core non-K overclocking
Previously, many overclockers began to use some non-K-series Alder Lake processors for overclocking, breaking some overclocking world records. Especially with the new generation of Celeron, Pentium, and Core i3 processors, after overclocking, the effect is quite obvious, and the performance improvement is quite large, which once became a hot topic in the DIY session. In fact, not all motherboards support this operation, and most Z690 motherboards are all DDR5 models.
ASRock has released a new high-end motherboard called the Z690 Taichi Razer Edition at CES 2022. This is the third time ASRock and Razer have teamed up since the B550 Taichi Razer Edition and X570 Taichi Razer Edition in 2020, and the first in the series to be based on an Intel platform. Recently, HKEPC researched it and found that it supports overclocking of the 12th generation Core non-K series. ASRock added the NON-K BCLK OC function in the 8.02 BIOS version of this motherboard, unlocking the original BCLK 102.9MHz limit.
In the test using the Core i5-12400 processor, the same unlock baseclock (BCLK) of the P-Core was manually adjusted to 131.25MHz, and all cores were successfully overclocked to 5.25 GHz with a multiplier of 40. Then in the multi-core benchmark of Cinebench R23, the score was 16205, which is comparable to the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X with 16 cores and 32 threads. During testing, the processor topped out at 89 degrees.
At present, there are not many motherboards confirmed to support the BCLK overclocking of the 12th generation Core non-K series processors.
