[Merged] Intel to lock overclocking on main stream processors ..

[terrybear]

As its reads on fudzilla:

" Intel has put in what can only be called an overclocking lock in the upcoming LGA1160 processors which are currently going under the codenames of Lynnfield and Havendale. As Intel seems to want to push the much more expensive Bloomfield platform to overclockers, the company implemented a lock that prevents these new processors from being overclocked by adding two PLL clock generators, one inside the CPU itself and one in the PCH "

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7255&Itemid=1

[selpats]

Doesn't bother me at all, I never OC my systems... ;)

[Frankie3s]

Doesn't bother me at all, I never OC my systems... ;)

Me neither. I'd rather meet women.

[GVRtrader]

Its about time they did something like this but they might lose some customer to AMD. It does make a lot of sense tho because otherwise (using current CPUs for example) no one would buy q6700 over q6600 if they plan on overclocking. If you can't overclock the q6600 to 3.6GHz, then more people will be buying the q6700 and therefore Intel makes a lot more money.

[blainehamilton]

Great. More focus on profit and less on performance.

It was bad enough multiplier locking chips back in the Pentium MMX days and forward. People changed bus speeds and got around it.

Now they try to eliminate all possibility of changing from the spec'ed speed.

You can bet someone will defeat it with scotch tape, a thin wire, some solder, or a defogger kit in about 10 minutes...

[board123]

I guess I'll just get a Penryn and run that for a while until the dust on this Nehalem stuff settles. This is really bad news.