The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

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Those people you are taking about will keep using the high-end on socket 1336 until the high-end SB hits the marked. Those people you are referring to are not into mainstream. But what do you mean by lack of OCing? do you mean all these CPUs are locked on stock speed?

imo its intel being greedy making design decisions to monetize mainstream overclocking. id rather spend extra dough on better hsf than pay intel for the 'privilage'. especially when privilage happens to be limited multipliers. not everyone buys $1000 cpu and §700 motherboards.but looking at the performance and no competetion from AMD i'll hold my nose and buy one