The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

[Hornet331]

So. No more clocking of the bus speed. Only multipliers if you shell out extra cash for a K type CPU. Else you will have to settle for a few turbo multi's. And they took out memory clocking in the same nightmare scenario move. Someone change the threads title because this is the real news.

I'm amazed that there is no outrage here. People actually defend it. I guess the blind adoration of a company really has no limits for some.

Bullldozer here I come.

Whys there no outrage?

Quite simple -> S2011. I don't really care for Mainstream SB the features and performance improvment are nice and it give a glimps at what we can expect from S2011.

So i don't really care if there is a oc lock on mainstream SB, now if there would be also a oc lock on S2011 that would make me rage.

[Manicdan]

Whys there no outrage?

cause a VIP on this forum, in this thread, made a good point,

OCing isnt a right, its a privilege. a few of us got a bit of a giggle out of it.

i think a few people will switch sides just cause they like the challenge, not even worried about performance differences.

and it is a good point that even though K series have unlimited multi, its just not sounding very fun.

[Sam_oslo]

cause a VIP on this forum, in this thread, made a good point,

OCing isnt a right, its a privilege. a few of us got a bit of a giggle out of it.

i think a few people will switch sides just cause they like the challenge, not even worried about performance differences.

and it is a good point that even though K series have unlimited multi, its just not sounding very fun.

The hard core OCers have been spending extra to get unlocked multi, because they don't want the limitations made by MB, RAM and Uncore. I haven't seen many Ocer who are pushing the BCLK on 980x, actually. So the K-series doesn't need to be something negative, on the contrary it is a strength. The fun part is to get most out of what you got and a new architecture will always present new ways to have fun too.

[Manicdan]

The hard core OCers have been spending extra to get unlocked multi, because they don't want the limitations made by MB, RAM and Uncore. I haven't seen many Ocer who are pushing the BCLK on 980x, actually. So the K-series doesn't need to be something negative, on the contrary it is a strength. The fun part is to get most out of what you got and a new architecture will always present new ways to have fun too.

i believe in a simple theory that with more time involved, the outcome is more rewarding. if it takes 20 minutes to find the max overclock, your probably going to be bored the rest of the weekend. but if you have 4 voltages, 3 multipliers, all the ram latencies, the base clock, and sweet spots that work well together, you can really have a weeks worth of fun getting every last percentage out of it.

[Sam_oslo]

i believe in a simple theory that with more time involved, the outcome is more rewarding. if it takes 20 minutes to find the max overclock, your probably going to be bored the rest of the weekend. but if you have 4 voltages, 3 multipliers, all the ram latencies, the base clock, and sweet spots that work well together, you can really have a weeks worth of fun getting every last percentage out of it.

I got finished OCing my SR-2 in 20 minutes anyways, , mainly because we know all the tricks of the good old i7-architecture by now, but i see what you mean. A new architecture will always have it's own new tricks and give us a couple of days fun, don't worry.

Bet lets agree the unlocked multi on k-series is not something negative, but is actually positive.