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I'm not really sure if it's a big deal or not. If the performance is already stellar and the price point is right, I'm not sure that I feel that "I have" to be able to overclock.
NeowinAccording to an Intel presentation about their upcoming LGA1155 "Sandy Bridge" CPUs, the company plans to intentionally limit the chip's overclocking capability; it appears that Intel only intends to permit a 2 – 3 percent overclock with the Base Clock adjustments.
BitTech states that “A video leaked to HKEPC and posted on YouTube (see from 2mins onwards) confirms the fact that only a 2-3 percent overclock via Base Clock adjustments will be possible. This is because Intel has tied the speed of every bus (USB, SATA, PCI, PCI-E, CPU cores, Uncore, memory etc) to a single internal clock generator issuing the basic 100MHz Base Clock.”
2-3% overclock? That sucks...definitely not going to buy any 1155 CPUs unless I absolutely have to.
I'm not really sure if it's a big deal or not. If the performance is already stellar and the price point is right, I'm not sure that I feel that "I have" to be able to overclock.
I don't think it's a big deal at all: If you want to Overclock, then simply buy CPU/Chipsets that *do*.
Seriously: Sandy Bridge is supposed to have an Integrated graphics core, and (just like everything else with integrated graphics) therefore it's going to be aimed primarily at Corporate/economy users. And if someone went to an enthusiast site saying "I want to overclock my <integrated chipset system>..." he'd be laughed out of the place. I know this, because I see it all the time at Tom's and Overclocker's.
Yes, they did.
If you read the slides shown in the original article, they show that some versions will be overclockable and others won't.