Intel plans to deliberately limit Sandy Bridge overclocking

[saaya]

Its not like the boards get cheaper to produce... more traces for quadchannel interface, more layer (8), and more traces for the power circuit.

i wouldnt be too sure about that...
i dont think boards today cost more than they did back then... since volume plays a major role in this i have a hunch they were more expensive back then...

I imagine he's suggesting that the CPU will accept a clock generated from a external source, not that you literally dismantle the CPU to adjust the clock generator. I can't be sure that's exactly what he meant, but as a Intel employee he wouldn't hint at something physically impossible especially not on this forum.

hes not hinting at anything for sb, hes just saying thats how it used to be, so people shouldnt be too spoiled from all the advances that made overclocking so easy and convenient, and rather embrace a challenge than whine about it... thats how i read it at least

the only problem is that since its all integrated into the cpu, running it out of spec becomes less and less of a challenge and more of an impossibility in some regards :/