Modder Gets Bartlett Lake 273PQE Working on Consumer Z790 Board

In a great example of hardware lockouts proving more of a challenge to enthusiasts than a real stopper, a modder has managed to get Intel's enterprise-only CPU, the Bartlett Lake Core 9 S273PQE, working on a consumer Z790 motherboard, letting us see what this unique 12 P-core CPU can do.

Intel never officially released Bartlett Lake CPUs to consumers; instead, it targeted enterprise and edge systems. Ditching the dual-architecture designs of its most recent CPUs, these chips were unique in that they were Performance Core only. And 12 of them are in this particular chip, giving it the highest P-core count of any Intel CPU ever made. Everything else is packed to the gills with efficiency and LPE cores.

That's what makes this such a fun project, and why Overclock.net community member Kryptonfly went to the effort of getting it working. They used an ASUS Z790-AYW OC ...