Intel plans to deliberately limit Sandy Bridge overclocking

[sin0822]

I believe what he meant when he was talking about the quartz is that its not going to be a piece of cake to overclock anymore, as in the mainstream user or one with less knowledge or time can't really do much, but that us with our skills or whatever you want to call it, and our motivation mostly will prevail. So that way they get rid of the fact that anyone can follow a template and overclock thier 930 for example to 4ghz. I would think apart from the settings there will be some sort of physical modification or trick or something that involves some dedication. Like for example intel makes the mobo manufacturers make sure you cant unlock over 175blck, but doesn't tell them they can let you easily mod a large resistor or 2 and fix it. 50-70% of the new overclockers wouldn't dare take a soldering iron to their board b/c theyd be too scared and would be limited. the other 30% of us would b/c we have done it before. Or the engineers might do something like put in an extra resistor on the underside of the processor that limits overclocking, but we can remove or replace it to overclock. That would basically make it so that that 50-70% would buy a better processor, limiting the extreme overclockers numbers and regain the market share they lost when overclocking became very popular 3-4 years ago and exponentially rose. Or i might just be 100% wrong.