Quote Originally Posted by perkam View Post
I think it is irresponsible for Intel to not allow overclocking.

There are entire industries hoping for overclocked Nehalem and its many applications:



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but again, intel is suporting overclocking as that is why Tylersburg was designed specificly such that it would work in single socket desktop configurations.

Lynnfield and Havendale have huge benifits to the 98% of the population that doesnt OC. The overall platform should use less power and costs less due to the complete drop of the chipset aside from an I/O hub. They don't overclock because there was no reason to spend the time and money to design the capability in and now with the current design there's no levers to pull with out any bus or interconect that carries the reference clock. Adding the ability in would have increased the time to market and the benifits to simplicity, cost, and power usage would have been sacrificed in the name of allowing OC'ing to satisfy 2% of the consumer market, and decrease their competitive advantage in the other 98%.

It was a very easy decision to make I believe.