The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

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on a side note ,Now i know why anand buries any amd information with intel news.
On to the cpu.

New socket, cheaper chipset has locked memory frequency, so you have to buy the more expensive one.
No move downards in the pricing structure of the cpu itself, sad but expected.
"There will be some wiggle room as far as I can tell, but it’s not going to be much. Overclocking, as we know it, is dead."
And anand havent screamed about ,if it was something like a small move.
Yea you can buy K`s and move multis, but what about fsb ?And you have to pay MORE.
"As a result, on P67 motherboards you’ll be able to adjust your memory ratios to support up to DDR3-2133."

Only ratios, so no fine tuning and of course, on the more expensive chipset.
Dammit intel!

Well, now i wont buy it even if bulldozer wont be the second coming of jesus.

EDIT.Didnt Dr.Who commented this no OC rumours to be false ?

Hi.
Can I ask you an honest question?
Who ever said you have the right to expect a company to make low end items that can be clocked to equal the high end items so that people won't buy the high end items?
Was it nice to be able to buy a i7-920 and get the speeds of the 975?
Yup,you bet it was but it's not a given or even our right to expect it.
Now I like to OC my systems just as much as anyone else but I take what exists and do the best I can with it.
Bottom line performance to me with SB will be how it compares to previous generations in pure computational power at a given speed.
Oh,and to answer your comment,I don't sleep on cash unless it's pennies that fell out of my pocket into the bed!

There is no point rationalizing Intel's poor decision to deliberately crippled SB with regards to overclocking.

It not like Intel's sales were harmed with C2D and i Series overclocks. IMO these things happen with monopolies. Look at how intel brought back overclocking big time with C2D. when there was good competition from AMD. The original reason to overclock is to get as much performance as possible out of your system, specially useful if you are short on money Collage, new job etc. Businesses wont overclock their office systems anyway nor will pro server/rendering farms
This is just hurting the enthusiast crowd who want more bang for their buck.