Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
I don't defend it, i think it sux as much as the next guy but I am also not so closed minded I pretend not to understand why companies do the things they do.

Intel does not make their money with xtremesystems.org, they do not even make the most volume of their revenue with DIY boxed processors but they do make money with the guys that would be part of xtremeOEMsandsystembuilders.org that is who they are trying to sell the bulk of their product to in the first place ... they are offering unlocked skus which is fine by me. I won't participate in skt 1155 any way, I will only go for skt 2011.... those won't be BLCLK locked from what is understood on the net.
but u cannot sell chips without people like those of XS liking them, just look at the p4 it lost market share since diy and overclockers did not want it so then tuned in consumer grade OEM buying consumers started to want amd, then the core2 and am2 came out destroying amd in the DIY and intel went back up but amd still kept some people. if this happened again with amd already in the 20% or so and most companies having amd builds then intel would loose a much larger chunk. so they would need an unlocked bclock platform or cheap unlocked cpus or they will suffer in the long term.