Thought I'd share what we could have had if Intel would do the right thing and provide BIOS support for Bartlett Lake for Z690/Z790 owners.

I have the modded BIOS for my Z790 Apex that provides unofficial support for Bartlett Lake 12P Core 273PQE. I've been dailying this system for a few weeks without issue. The CPU is an actual beast and the 10 and 12P core SKUs could have been a great drop in alternative for those still on a 12th gen or even lower end 13-14th gen.

Unfortunately this CPU microcode limits the memory to Intel's official 5600MTs limit, and I get slightly higher 5768MTs at CL28 1T through use of a small BCLK OC 103Mhz. 2x32gb DDR5 A-Dies. If I could run real DDR5 memory speeds with this chip, it would be pretty epic and the score would scale a bit. Probably somewhere in 14K range.

Come on Intel, do the right thing, allows vendors to push the simple BIOS update for support.