Borrowed from Fudzilla
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We've learned that Intel is going to change its policy on overclocking once it moves away from the LGA775 platform onto the desktop Nehalem platform, which is currently known as Bloomfield, which uses the LGA1366 socket. This will be the only platform from Intel which will overclock in the future, as the company is not going to support overclocking on other platforms.
Below the Bloomfield is the Lynnfield and Havendale processors, both using the LGA1160 socket. Neither of these are likely to get any overclocking abilities, although we're not sure how Intel can prevent third-party motherboard manufacturers from adding overclocking features to their boards.
However, with most of the Northbridge being located inside the CPU of these models, it might be possible for Intel to make some changes as to what the BIOS can access and how the bus speed is controlled. If this is indeed the case, then this is very sad news for all enthusiasts, as it means that a huge group of users will never be able to afford to buy an overclockable platform, from Intel, that is.
It's early days as yet and Intel might change its stance on this, but we find it peculiar that they've decided on this move; but it's never easy to figure out the reason why Intel does something.
That's a really sad bit of news. Why are Intel preventing this? Surely those processors
are not gonna be that powerful that overclocking will be a thing of the past.
This'll be a downfall for the company...
What a beautiful piece of crap. There is nothing factual behind this. It is a whole lot like the whole "reverse hyper threading" The Inquirer fabricated a few years ago. Don't believe this BS.
Edit: Remember, it was Intel that avoided using Hyper Transport in favor of keeping the memory controller on the northbridge so motherboard manufacturers could decide what features to offer. Intel knows better than anyone else that people like flexibility. There is no indication that is about to change. People in bed with AMD would want you to believe otherwise...
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considering fudzilla is the only one to post this, i highly doubt it is true.
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Waste of money. I got a 8800 GT with 256 MiB memory and it works just swell. If 256 MiB does the job, what is the point of getting a card with 8x the necessary amount?
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Waste of money. I got a 8800 GT with 256 MiB memory and it works just swell. If 256 MiB does the job, what is the point of getting a card with 8x the necessary amount?
Like others said, I highly doubt that this article has any truth to it. They do not want to loose enthusiasts to AMD. Having the enthusiasts on your platform can help trickle down to more casual users who are told what to buy by the enthusiasts.
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