Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
But there is a difference now due to the way DMI is designed.This wasn't the case in the i7s.
possible, but you cannot be sure just by looking at specs on a powerpoint.
or they will develop the "K" concept or whatever they need to make OC affordable.

average overclockers are just too much of free publicity for them to let it go like that

Quote Originally Posted by Sam_oslo View Post

It is a natural move if Intel try yo to limit the OC of mainstream to prevent a direct competition with hight end. I guess that's the lesson Intel has learned from i7, when we all bought a sub $300 920 and OCed it to beat the $1000 975.
you mean it took 20 years for them to realize that ? this has been existing since 486 series ^^