Intel plans to deliberately limit Sandy Bridge overclocking

[Movieman]

Saaya:
You say you call it as you see it and so don't I.
I don't always agree with what Intel does and like you I don't like seeing the "normal" over clocking method removed but I think he was spot on in his response to you.
Now I don't know the "why's" of what they did and why the adjustments to BCLK are tied to everything else but maybe it was a business decision based on money.
Imagine your Intel 2 years back..
You release the cheap i7-920 and the expensive i7-965 then i7-975 but no ones buying the 965/975 because they are getting the same numbers or better from overclocked 920's.
If you owned the company I bet you'd be screaming that "next time around we're stopping this crap" and you'd be right.
I'm not saying this is what happenned but it is a logical presumption on my part.
Last:
I don't give a tinkers damn if the only way to OC the machine is with the multi IF and I repreat IF it gives more computational power/electrical cost than the current westmeres( which ain't that bad! )
Aslo from what few numbers I've seen these SB chips are faster clock for clock than the Gulftown/Westmere's we have now.
Not mind boggling but 10-20% faster depending on which bench is run.
That's not too shabby over what I already see as an excellent cpu.