After poking around pcpartpicker, with the non-K skew Skylake chips being overclockable in mind, I was wondering if a similar architecture is present in the Xeon chips for the Skylake socket (Xeon E3-1220 V5) that allows direct core clocks to be changeable. Anyone know about this or have any experience?
I'm going to just say no out of the gate because the Skylake Xeon's do not run on the Z170 series boards, which is unlike the previous generations which have allowed the Xeon's to run on consumer chipsets. For example you could run a 1231-v3 on a Z97 board (like my setup :>) but you cannot run a 1230-v5 on a Z170 board.
Nope Skylake Xeon E3's dont run on Z170 boards, only on C-series chipset boards.
And there for, they will be most likely not overclockable.
Well they technically can run on H and Z they just dont display correctly. That and they have zero overclock validation and are strapped specifically so you cant so yeah @MisteryAngel is totally right here ;)