Why would Intel do that on the first place? They are not even "designed" for overclocking, there is no extra cost added onto R&D or bill of materials for these. The K series CPUs are just a variant of the normal ones that they can sell for 20-30 U$D higher just for giving you the Unlocked Multiplier and a better GPU (At the cost of losing VT-d, vPro and TXT, so its not even a win-win scenario because you lose a very useful virtualization feature). And it will sell to that 1% simply because it is still superior to what rival AMD has to offer. Remember that Intel is a corporation, so its basically capitalism at its finest, they aren't going to move their ass to offer you a better product if they don't have any sort of pressure to do so. Or did everyone already forget what was the driving ideology behind NetBurst architecture and how AMD hurted they market share before Conroe?




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