Tech company Intel recently halted owners of non-K-series Skylake CPUs from overclocking (i.e. like running your car at a higher RPM) the chips in a microcode update that will effectively revoke this capability from the chip. Intel's company statement has always been that overclocking chips that weren’t designed for it, as well as attempting to use the standard warranty for damage caused by it (which doesn’t cover overheats or meltdowns from overclocking) is not permitted. K-series chips are designed for the intensive process, and anything other than K is not.
With overclocking capabilities, consumers can buy lower-priced chips and then overclock them to have higher levels of performance. Since companies like Intel don’t wish to support this, they frequently release measures to put a halt to it.
Because of this, consumers will have to purchase K-series Intel chips if they wish to overclock (or find a way around the code preventing it).
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Source: PCGamer, PCWorld, ExtremeTech
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