Wednesday, June 4th 2008
Intel Says Yes to Overclocking, but No to Warranty of Overclocked Death Chips
During Computex 2008, Intel said that they'll change their strategy when it comes to overclocking and allowing users to squeeze extra performance from their systems. Overclocking capabilities will be the main feature of Intel's 4 series chipsets, said Eric Mentzer, Intel's vice president and general manager of the Graphics Development Group, in an interview at the Computex exhibition in Taipei. "We spend a lot of time working with our motherboard partners to figure out all the hidden bits inside, helping them figure out how to bring the best out of these platforms," Mentzer said. In the past and sometimes even today Intel used to lock down its chips to prevent them from overclocking, and that's exactly the time when terms like "FSB wall" started to mean something. Now the company is focusing to eliminate all the overclocking obstacles for us, but that will come with the cost of the warranty which won't cover death chips that were overclocked. Now comes the perfect time to ask, how is Intel going to know if my motherboard or CPU were overclocked?
Source:
InfoWorld
33 Comments on Intel Says Yes to Overclocking, but No to Warranty of Overclocked Death Chips
they are talking about unlocking the fsb walls on the mobo here guys not unlocking the cpu :slap:
I remember some store that told me(years ago) AMD could tell if it was overclocked for so many boots. Like if you had it oced and the put it back to stock and booted 6 times or so it would not remember being overclocked aymore.
As long as they don't lock us out of overclocking, or put up some kind of barrier where it just WILL NOT work past a specific set speed, I am happy.