Intel plans to deliberately limit Sandy Bridge overclocking

[Drwho?]

WE will have plenty of overclocking fun with SandyBridge, there are tonnes of fun coming your way, some amazing new stuffs ... when putting together a so complex chip, some challenge emerge ... then, there are two kind of people, 1st Kind: "OMG, this is the end of the world" ... 2nd Kind "Cool, some challenges and new stuff to understand and use" ...
you guys choose your camp, But just know what we have many many people working on making sure you guys can have fun with our CPUs ...

And let's put it in plain words: "A sandyBridge overclocked will pulverize anything else on CPU performance, and will surprise you on other areas" ...

Drwho?

[Hornet331]

WE will have plenty of overclocking fun with SandyBridge, there are tonnes of fun coming your way, some amazing new stuffs ... when putting together a so complex chip, some challenge emerge ... then, there are two kind of people, 1st Kind: "OMG, this is the end of the world" ... 2nd Kind "Cool, some challenges and new stuff to understand and use" ...
you guys choose your camp, But just know what we have many many people working on making sure you guys can have fun with our CPUs ...

Drwho?

Which plattform we are talking about?

[Drwho?]

Which plattform we are talking about?

in each segment, SB will do well.
what make people react is the way the article is written , there are very good technical reasons why things are the way they are (No nobody is trying to get rid of overclocking, otherwise, they would be dead drying in my attics by now ... lol litteral translation from French ... lol ), and SB will lead, everywhere, including on Overclocked performance, and for the moment, i am the only one with real Perf data in hands ... So, no need to worry, trust me on this.
Later on, people will realize how silly that was.

Human nature trend to be affraid of change or differences, this is one more example ... I am extremely pleased with SandyB.

[Hornet331]

in each segment, SB will do well.
what make people react is the way the article is written , there are very good technical reasons why things are the way they are (No nobody is trying to get rid of overclocking, otherwise, they would be dead drying in my attics by now ... lol litteral translation from French ... lol ), and SB will lead, everywhere, including on Overclocked performance, and for the moment, i am the only one with real Perf data in hands ... So, no need to worry, trust me on this.
Later on, people will realize how silly that was.

Human nature trend to be affraid of change or differences, this is one more example ... I am extremely pleased with SandyB.

Thx, and good to hear.

[NaeKuh]

LOL this thread is funny.

And Dr. Who, lets assume you can overclock SB.

It will lose hard against a SR-2 platform with 2 X5680's.

So your wrong... it wont destory everything out there.

And im willing to bet current westmere-ep's will be very close to it.

[Drwho?]

LOL this thread is funny.

And Dr. Who, lets assume you can overclock SB.

It will lose hard against a SR-2 platform with 2 X5680's.

So your wrong... it wont destory everything out there.

And im willing to bet current westmere-ep's will be very close to it.

Well, sandy bridge generation will have dual CPU too , what was your point?

[Iconyu]

LOL this thread is funny.

And Dr. Who, lets assume you can overclock SB.

It will lose hard against a SR-2 platform with 2 X5680's.

So your wrong... it wont destory everything out there.

And im willing to bet current westmere-ep's will be very close to it.

You do know who Dr Who is right? When he talks about Intel he uses the word 'we' and that not just because he's french.

Edit: Actually it might be hard to tell, because he's a little excitable, but I guess it's the first time he's been 'forced' to dampen a rumour that incorrect about this new architecture. He's easily as excited about this as he was when he explained to everyone that the 1366 i7's would overclock fine if was just different and that everyone would enjoy it.

[NaeKuh]

Well, sandy bridge generation will have dual CPU too , what was your point?

Im sorry werent we talking about 1155?

Information provided by Intel in its own presentations about its upcoming mainstream LGA1155 Sandy Bridge CPUs appears to confirm the company has designed the CPUs to deliberately limit overclocking.

Didnt you say 1155 was gonna blow away everything?
Did we even get into 2011?
Isnt this article @ 1155 specifically?

Are you telling us, 1155 and 2011 are gonna be identical?

You do know who Dr Who is right? When he talks about Intel he uses the word 'we' and that not just because he's french.

Yes i know who he is... and honestly i can care less if he's gonna pull NDA gag orders.

He's trying to throw Han's finding under a Rug, and make us all deny it.

Ie.. he's trying to control information.

And im also like this to JFAMD and AMD, so Intel doesnt get a freebie from me either.