omgwtfbbq@ the overclocking protection. Yikes. Those of us who pointed out this possibility were ridiculed, and now it turns out we were right (in at least considering the possibility) after all. Built right into the chip. Damn. However, even with the overclocking protection it looks like the new design beats Core2 most of the time. This sort of came out of nowhere. No leaks on the overclocking limits. Looks like Intel is doing a pretty good job with leak control these days. It's really too bad that Intel is going back to being antagonistic to overclockers. Maybe AMD will take advantage of this if they can ever close the huge gap in performance. Although it won't help them financially since overclockers represent only the tiniest fraction of the market. Our loss won't even be a blip on their financial reports.