Intel plans to deliberately limit Sandy Bridge overclocking

[saaya]

That is where it is locked I would suspect, I have never seen a PCIe ratio/multiplier option in a BIOS, however i would suppose it possible or existed on boards I never owned.

yes, that is the level of complexity, the tight integration of all the different IOs.

then how can you defend intel for breaking bclock adjustments?
chum made a perfect point, francois is bragging about how great their designs are, but if they are really so great then how come they couldnt solve this problem by adding a simple divider or multiplier? nobody cares where the clock signal comes from, thats not the point... the point is what you do with it...

Sux for the enthusiast, but great for the volume OEMs and system builders -- two less specifications to design two (two different clock generators and the associated traces).

well good thing for us here at xtremeOEMsandsystembuilders.org then! hooray! wait...