Thursday, 27. March 2003

Topic: COMPUTER - on March 27, 2003 at 11:52:34 AM CET

Intel to Restrict Overclocking
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Intel has been trying to restrict overclocking for quite a long time already, however, its chips have been being overclocked for even longer time. Nothing can stop overclockers and hardware enthusiasts from boosting the performance for free and Intel definitely does not like this. Another aspect of overclocking is possible “mass-overclock” by unfaithful resellers, who remark the lower-end CPUs into more expensive ones and then sell for higher price. It is not a really wide practice, but we hear about such cases from time to time. So, Intel has at least two serious reasons to dislike overclocking and overclockers and also try to totally restrict such practice at all.

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