Intel Haswell almost entirely limits overclocking to K-series CPUs

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No complaints from me really. I always see enthusiasts preferring the K-series over non-K anyway.
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I don't have a problem paying an extra $30 for a good night of benching. Sadly I sometimes think finding max overclocks is more fun than playing games...
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Means no more 3820 style OCing? I miss the ol days of x58 ocing xD
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Well i don't think Intel got a lot of burned CPUs returned because of OC, the warranty is enough to take away from consumers...
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the K-series lacks the TSX extensions
hmm, now that kinda sucks..
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No complaints from me really. I always see enthusiasts preferring the K-series over non-K anyway.
I don't have a problem paying an extra $30 for a good night of benching. Sadly I sometimes think finding max overclocks is more fun than playing games...
...and that's why Intel is doing it. Thanks for the $ :stewpid:
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Intel will almost entirely limit overclocking support on its Haswell processors, forcing enthusiasts who want to overclock to get the more expensive K-series parts because the non-K series parts will ... Intel Haswell almost entirely limits overclocking to K-series CPUs
Like I said they MADE the K series for the people that OC there Chips and Locked everything else for reason... TO make the people that NEED to OC PAY more. Then the people that dont care to OC. IT was basicly all to make more profit from those people.
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They charge extra for overclocking chips (with features removed) and charge another extra to have them warrantied for their intended purpose? I dont mind paying the extra they are charging for the overclocking chip, but I absolutely expect them to have warranty cover without paying again. UK courts would hand Intel their arse if they tried to deny a legitimate claim, I pity people in other countries. I'm annoyed that I would have to go through a court to get them to act decently.
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They charge extra for overclocking chips (with features removed) and charge another extra to have them warrantied for their intended purpose? I dont mind paying the extra they are charging for the overclocking chip, but I absolutely expect them to have warranty cover without paying again. UK courts would hand Intel their arse if they tried to deny a legitimate claim, I pity people in other countries. I'm annoyed that I would have to go through a court to get them to act decently.
I believe that performance plan only applies the US. Your consumer laws are more effective than they are here. So you guys wouldn't have silly ass stuff like this to deal with.
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Means no more 3820 style OCing? I miss the ol days of x58 ocing xD
Doesn't really matter since the 4820 is a k (4820k).
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feature-stripped K models ? Now would be a good time for AMD to catch up in speed. Might win more market share back now. Well, my 2600k will work nicely still for a while.
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feature-stripped K models ? Now would be a good time for AMD to catch up in speed. Might win more market share back now. Well, my 2600k will work nicely still for a while.
hah same here. I was remotely thinking to upgrade this year, but considering the ridiculously low performance improvement, my 4.8ghz 2600k will serve me some more. as time passes this cpu becomes more and more of a better investment lol.
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IT was basicly all to make more profit from those people.
Perhaps you haven't spent much time on sites that are popular with overclocking n00bs, cuz if you did you'd realize how often these people who have no idea what they're doing end up throwing huge voltage at their CPU's and fry them. And of course they care about ethics as much as they took time to learn how to not screw things up.... so back to intel the chips get sent. This is a very common practice, and if people admit doing this so frequently... you gotta believe that far more do so but don't admit it.
feature-stripped K models ? Now would be a good time for AMD to catch up in speed. Might win more market share back now. Well, my 2600k will work nicely still for a while.
I don't see anyone switching from Intel to AMD over something as minor as TSX extensions. The only software that supports it are GCC v4.8, Microsoft's latest Visual Studio 2012, and of course Intel's C compiler v13. Overclockers tend to do so because of game performance, benchmarking, and encoding, etc. TSX extensions are for workstations, which are all about stability, not overclockability.