Quote Originally Posted by AliG View Post
I'm not sure Intel necessarily killed overclocking with the 'k' series, but rather the change in bus strategy greatly limited frequency based overclocking. FSB was very flexible by Conroe; ring bus seemed to really dislike going above 100 MHz (possibly because it tied all the other controllers too).

In either case you still get terrific value out of a low end 'k' processor.
There is no such thing as a low end K processor.Even the dual core ones are pricy.
People were getting Terrific value out of a celeron 300A, or Duron 600 , or pentium MMX 166 , or for example I7 920 , or maybe 960T with unlocking two cores and overclocking beyond 1100T.
Paying for a 7700K almost double the price of a playstation 4 in some countries for mid range CPU alone is hardly "terrific value".
And yes Intel actively seeks killing off any overclocking beyond the parts they want.Just like with skylake.And both chipsets and cpus.