One of the most enjoyable to overclocking event last year was the possibility of increasing the frequency of the base generator in Skylake processors . In fact, it has opened up access to overclock Skylake series without free multiplier. Of course, this coin has reverse side. First, for this overclock you will need a motherboard based on chipset Intel Z170 - the pleasure is not the cheap. Second, the power saving function processors Skylake-S stop working, and in rare performance applications using AVX falls in performance.
However, if you already have a motherboard with LGA 1151, in the case of products Gigabyte Technology can talk about expanding the list of BIOS, support CPU overclocking Skylake by increasing the frequency of the base generator. It is enough to update the firmware,You can find a complete list of BIOS for Gigabyte motherboards :
It is noteworthy that some of these boards imply Skylake processor and memory type DDR3L.