TjMax for all

[iddqd]

It's fairly difficult to kill a chip with overclocking (at least it used to be until recently), and we're such a miniscule market, that intel doesn't really care about allocating its RMA funds to a handful of xs members who want to abuse it. It's better than having the negative PR of unhappy customers. A lot of xs members have a bit of an influence, too.

[zanzabar]

It's fairly difficult to kill a chip with overclocking (at least it used to be until recently), and we're such a miniscule market, that intel doesn't really care about allocating its RMA funds to a handful of xs members who want to abuse it. It's better than having the negative PR of unhappy customers. A lot of xs members have a bit of an influence, too.

and intel likes when we lap or use extreme cooling since it changes the appearance too, they also like that we now shun AMD when for all intensive purposes if u cant OC they are better for the price (flame suit). in all they just want a dead/almost EOL line to be kept alive so no1 starts complaining when there are no more large cash chips in 6 months


there also may be heat problems with the voltages in the i7 so they dont want u overheating it with bad temp monitoring

[Jacky]

and intel likes when we lap or use extreme cooling since it changes the appearance too, they also like that we now shun AMD when for all intensive purposes if u cant OC they are better for the price (flame suit).

I'm not sure this is true, at least here in Austria. It seems they are close price/performance wise, so maybe you were right and your comment is indeed inflammatory.