Modder Gets Intel Core 9 273PQE Bartlett Lake Chip to Boot to Windows

The modder working to get Intel's unique 12 P-core Bartlett Lake 273PQE CPU running on a consumer motherboard has hit a new milestone: It now boots to Windows! They were even able to get some basic system info apps running. No benchmark results yet, but after some more tweaking, I doubt they'll be far off.

Just a few days ago, we heard of a modder who had managed to tweak the BIOS firmware on an Asus Z790 consumer motherboard to post with a Bartlett Lake CPU installed. This isn't the platform that chip was originally designed for, having been built for Edge and Embedded systems. But the hack worked, and it posted—but it stumbled on a USB error. Now, though, the modder has blown through that threshold and gotten the system working on Windows.

"HISTORICAL!" the modder, who goes by Kryptonfly, posted on the Overclock.net ...