How Intel Will Lock Overclocking on LGA1160 (Mainstream Nehalem) - Fud

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Gosh I love how the rules change when the Blue team is doing it, it's bad but when the Green team is doing even worse, it's OK! Folks bragged about how sweet a deal was for a $389 to $439 3800+ for almost a year while AMD raped the market. Green blooded guys from far and wide defended them. They absolutely gushed and blushed about $850 FX-55's and were down right Giddy over $634 4400+ so please spare that it cost too much crying!? Please? NO, most folks here didn't buy Intel's top models and when Conroe launched Intel had enough sense to also ship some for the Sub $200 Market and not pull an AMD 3800+ trick.

Please speak for yourself If any Nehalem ships anywhere near the $400 price point it will sell like gangbusters. Sure every one can't afford it, but many more will IMHO! Unlike the other guy, most of us can at least predict that Nehalem will be worth $400

I think you might have quoted the wrong guy here. I spoke for myself when I said I would pay $400.

I just doubt that most of the people on the enthusiast bandwagon will. I think that the fact that you can get so much for so cheap in the current pricing scheme is a big part of the reason why the enthusiast market has grown so big in the past two years. It also allows unsponsored overclockers a less expensive way to find good batches, take risks and go for high scores.

I am glad that there will still be products geared toward overclockers. Whatever, either way it'll be an exciting time with the new chips.