Quote Originally Posted by Sumanji View Post
You're contradicting yourself quite heavily there

Majority of profit comes from vast quantity of low/mid end sales correct. If they lock Lynfield/Havendale chips, Dell, HP, Joe's PC will not give a crap (i.e. 99% of the buyers). But a lot of overclockers will give a crap.

The largest profit per unit is from high end CPU's (i.e. Q, X, QX). If they can force us to buy more expensive gear when AMD has no reply... = win for them.

So it would not surprise me if they did lock down the FSB...
Exactly. Average Joe has no interest in OC'ing at all, and would be looking at price as the driving fordce behind his buying decision. They will sell millions of those CPU's, and they'll be put into all kinds of Proprietary systems. Even the home builder just looking for a every day computer is gonna flock right to them becasue they are cheap.

Serious OC'ers (which is a single star in the Galaxy that is Intel sales)will be looking at performance first, and price last. For the high end price really doesn't matter at the costs these things are at right now. It might start mattering if they get out of hand, but the high end CPU's are priced just right.

Lynfield is not even in my forecast. I'm going Bloomfield all the way, and will have that system for quite some time. By that time, the new technology that could not even be conceived of in the wildest dreams people have right now will be developed. That is a long way away.

It's two completely different markets that these CPU's are targeted for. It may OC, or it may not. It really doesn't matter for sales.