The Core 9 273PQE just booted Windows on an ASUS Z790. For a Bartlett Lake-S chip intended for the edge, landing on a consumer desktop changes the situation.
Boot Windows confirmé sur ASUS Z790
The Bartlett Lake-S modding project on Overclock.net has passed the POST stage. The Core 9 273PQE was shown booting into Windows on an ASUS Z790 board, where previous demos stopped at the AMI screen with correct CPU identification.
The modder explains that he rewrote the BIOS with AI assistance and added the missing support blocks. The card was already detecting the processor, but the OS was not loading. The new status indicates that these locks are lifted.
Platform specifications and context
According to the official page, the Core 9 273PQE has 12 cores, 24 threads, all Performance cores, no Efficient core, up to 5.9 GHz, 36 MB cache and 125 W Processor Base Power. A rare all-P-core refocusing for a recent Intel desktop, although Bartlett Lake-S targets the embedded and the edge.
The ASUS Z790-AYW OC WIFI is announced as compatible with 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Core, not Bartlett Lake-S. The manufacturers had not planned for mainstream support. Hence the interest of this Windows boot on a general public LGA-1700 platform.
The screenshots show CPU-Z, AIDA64 and ASUS TurboV Core booting and recognizing the CPU. The GPU is detected, opening the way to gaming tests on a non-industrial card with a 12 P-cores on the old 700 chipset.
Intel Core 9 273PQE: outstanding questions
A Windows boot clearly goes beyond simple POST, but nothing is established regarding stability, device support, microcode behavior or actual performance. The reasons why Intel did not activate these CPUs on the Z, B and H series remain unclear, as does the choice to confine Bartlett Lake-S to the edge.
If benches and games confirm the performance, the LGA-1700 ecosystem could experience a final surge around a full P-core design, interesting for certain single-threaded loads or sensitive to inter-thread latency. BIOS modding tools in any case show that software locking has its limits.
Source : Overclock.net via Uniko’s Hardware via VideoCardz
