News Intel to drop overclocking for mainstream Nehalems

[Tefra]

We've learned that Intel is going change its policy on overclocking once it moves away from the LGA775 platform onto the desktop Nehalem platform which is currently known as Bloomfield which uses the LGA1366 socket. This will be the only platform from Intel which will overclock in the future, as the company is not going to support overclocking on other platforms.

Below the Bloomfield is the Lynnfield and Havendale processors, both using the LGA1160 socket. Neither of these are likely to get any overclocking abilities, although we're not sure how Intel can prevent third party motherboard manufacturers from adding overclocking features to their boards.

However, with most of the northbridge being located inside the CPU of these models, it might be possible for Intel to make some changes as to what the BIOS can access and how the bus speed is controlled. If this is indeed the case, then this is very sad news for all enthusiasts, as it means that a huge group of users will never be able to afford to buy an overclockable platform, from Intel that is.

Source: fudzilla.com

[weasel]

thats some bad news i'm oc'ing cpu's for allot of years now.:s not good news.

[Azrael]

Interesting, not too happy on the whole Socket change to begin with (and the whole two separate ones is odd too). In any case we will see how things go, hope intel isn't making mistakes now.