Tuesday, March 31st 2026

Intel's Pure P-core "Bartlett Lake" Made to Run on Regular Z790 Motherboard via BIOS Mod

Intel Core 200 "Bartlett Lake" is probably the most interesting processor gamers can't buy—built on the Intel 7 node and designed for Socket LGA1700, "Bartlett Lake" is a non-Hybrid, pure P-core chip, a monolithic silicon, with 12 "Raptor Cove" P-cores, and no E-core clusters. The 12-core/24-thread chip was launched earlier this month as an exclusive for the commercial and industrial PC OEM markets, as an edge AI PC processor, it is not drop-in compatible with consumer Intel Z790 chipset motherboards, or at least that was the plan.

A motherboard UEFI firmware mod by "kryptonfly" got a consumer ASUS Z790-AYW OC motherboard to POST with an Intel Core 9 273QPE "Bartlett Lake" processor. The modder used Claude AI to mod the UEFI firmware of the board without tripping safeguards that prevent the motherboard from booting with modded firmware. The 273QPE is a 12-core/24-thread pure P-core processor with 2 MB of L2 cache per core, and 36 MB of shared L3 cache. Its uncore components and iGPU are carried over from "Raptor Lake-S." The 273QPE has a base frequency of 3.30 GHz, an all-core boost frequency of 5.30 GHz, and a single-core TVB frequency of 5.90 GHz. The chip has 125 W processor base power, and 250 W maximum turbo power. You can watch kryptonfly's firmware mod video from the source link below.
Sources: kryptonfly (YouTube), Tom's Hardware
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5 Comments on Intel's Pure P-core "Bartlett Lake" Made to Run on Regular Z790 Motherboard via BIOS Mod

#1
Hugis
Its not fully booting yet but signs are good, but the cost of those chips is massively prohibitive for there performance vs previous Raptor lake CPUs
Here, 44 pages over on Overclock.net
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#2
kondamin
Just open it up to regular consumers intel it’s clear we want to give you money for the product.
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#3
Hugis
Seems they have sorted quite a bit in 3-4 days, Z790 running windows!
www.overclock.net/posts/29574654/
Thats some serious hard work with alot of AI help along the way , but yeah fair play!
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#4
Sol_Badguy
The modder used Claude AI to mod the UEFI firmware of the board without tripping safeguards that prevent the motherboard from booting with modded firmware.
The bad news is that now the bubble won't pop as AI has proved its worth (yet again) and this example is another advertisement for what "miracles" it can do. Good luck snuffing it when the rabble clamors for it. 🧞‍♂️
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#5
spud101
Bartlett lake-S sounds good being p core only. Problem is, there are massive stocks of 12th, 13th 14th gen CPUs available at Great prices already.
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