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So question... How are you going to OC your memory now? Are the K series going to allow Intel users to use the BCLK or is it fully locked to 100mhz across the board?
You'll get more memory multipliers.
From my understanding, that was their "super high end ultra unlimited $1,000,000,000 processor that only two people can afford" line. But maybe I read it wrong.
We're a drop in the bucket - but Intel doesn't want that drop to end up in AMD's bucket
We never had a Anandtech preview 3-4 times.I still say this is a marketing ploy. "Leak" information that may hint towards your products being locked down and BOOM, threads explode everywhere and everyone knows that a new processor is coming out. Coincidence that it happens 3-4 times in a row now? No way.
I'm talking about older processors. I remember this happening when i7 came out, i5 came out, Core2...
Looks like I may be going to AMD.
The intel Engineer said that desk top users are switching to mobile and what you have left is a desktop hyper segmentation and a big component of that is the enthusiast overclokers.I'm not worried in the slightest. I'm prepared to stick with my $199 i7's for at least a year - and then I would simply switch to AMD if Intel is jacking up the cost of Overclocking. Problem solved
Let the market decide and Intel will eat crow soon enough. Or (as I believe to be the case) there WILL be ways around these limitations. Or you can pay more to Overclock your Sandy Bridge "K" CPU and Intel will "win" this battle. I think the consumers should vote with their wallets since the Overclockers are such a HUGE part of Intels' bottom line like you keep getting at (I really don't believe that - even if the Intel engineer says otherwise ).
OEM makes "us" look like ants. Just look at Intel's onboard graphics dominace over AMD/Nvidia's discrete offerings (COMBINED) amungst "Enthusiasts". That's only a tiny part of the story...
Why would that be good marketing overclockers like to feel elite, correct. why are you debating the truth from what he says? He was talking about oveclocking is big, he is not inflating market data for sales.I'm absolutely a gung-ho overclocker. And I'm an ABSOLUTE Intel Fanboy - probably more so than most on this thread (every single PC I've built in my lifetime has used Intel CPU's and Chipsets - no joke). No doubt at all about that. If Intel raises the price of Overclocking because they can - I'm going to AMD. I'm not the only one
I'm pretty sure the Intel guy knows this, too...
Of course some will stick with higher priced Intel CPU's and still overclock on the Intel side - but part of what drives me to overclock is 1) Limited Budget and 2) Performance. I want to have a solid grasp on BOTH - if Intel removes one of the two - AMD will gladly fill the void...
Intel won't let that happen after the P4 spanking AMD gave them IMO - and there WILL be a way to overclock "base" Sandy Bride chips in the near future IMO. A broken record: "I'm not worried in the slightest"...
And we are just a drop in the bucket. Intel's attempt to make us feel otherwise is simply good marketing on their part (they have to justify their higher priced unlocked CPU's to US somehow - right?) OEM dwarfs any and all overclockers on the planet by a HUGE margin (H-U-G-E!).
Overclocking is all about cost effective parts opened up to a whole new level of performance. If you have the cash for high-end parts - then more power to you - but I've always stuck with ~$200 CPU's and ~$200 MoBo's - and I have no intention on changing that because Intel wants to rake us over the coals to make some extra cash...