Quote Originally Posted by Zaskar View Post
From an Intel rep on this board around a month ago he said the reason had something to do with how the lower end chips were made, that the CPU's will run at their rated speed even if an aftermarket board/chipset tries to force it higher due to the CPU checking the speed and anything trying to run faster will be disregarded and ran at the stock speed.

Supposedly this was considered a side effect of the architecture and not the intention.

He also said the lowest end Bloomfield CPU will be around $400 so no one should worry about not being able to afford the ones you can overclock.
That was me, and I'm not an Intel rep so do not take my statements as such. I am a computer enthusiast who happens to also be a manufacturing engineer for Intel.

It boils down to the fact that Lynnfield and Havendale most likely will be doing all their clock generation and splitting from within the CPU package. There really aren't any good levers for the OC'er to change the reference frequency off which the CPU is based as there really isn't any reference frequency in either platform.

these are both done so that the platform uses less chips, becomes simpler, uses less power and costs less.