Intel's industrial Bartlett Lake CPUs modded to run on consumer motherboards
Image: Primary Enthusiasts have successfully modified Intel's Bartlett Lake processors, originally designed strictly for OEM and industrial edge computing deployments, to function on standard consumer Z790 motherboards.
The flagship Core 9 273QPE, featuring 12 cores and 24 threads with boost clocks reaching 5.4GHz, reportedly outperformed AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X3D in Cinebench multi-core testing when modded. The achievement required BIOS modifications and voltage adjustments to circumvent Intel's platform restrictions. Bartlett Lake represents Intel's P-core only architecture targeting embedded applications, making its superior multi-threaded performance particularly notable given the absence of power-efficient E-cores.
The modding breakthrough could pressure Intel to reconsider its market segmentation strategy, as demand appears strong for high-core-count CPUs without the hybrid architecture complexity of consumer Alder Lake and Raptor Lake generations.
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