Intel Sandy Bridge Design May Limit Overclocking

[WC Annihilus]

"The inherent design of Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge platform may make traditional clocking a bit difficult."

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[Diablo]

I'm guessing that motherboard manufacturers may decide to do something clever in the bios, possibly with a non chipset based clock generator for the extras. Alternatively intel may decide to only implement this on the gx1-px5 (or whatever) board.

 

[nikk]

wasn't the same been told about nehalem?

 

[Bungral]

Ahh linkage to one of my old stories.. Nice.

Think I still have Francois's business card floating around here somewhere from that Nehalem press thing.

Anyway, yeah, after the same thing being said for Nehalem, I think I'll just wait and see before making comment.

 

[Diablo]

Yeah I remember now, the whole no more than TDP usage. Then again maybe we'll see the release of overclockable HDs?

 

[KapteinFruit]

It will suck if they do. But if they do they'll lose buyers. (Us ) So I think they'll try to find a way around. And from what I've heard the i7's were supposed to be limited as well, but they're not.