Chinese to get unlocked Clarksdale, Lynnfield LGA1156 processors

[DrMrLordX]

Check it:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...Microprocessors_with_Unlocked_Multiplier.html

Of particular interest:

Back in August ’09 the world’s largest chipmaker already tried to sell its Pentium 6500K processor with unlocked multiplier in China as a pilot program. The company said back then that based on the demand towards the product it would make the decision about selling similar CPUs in other regions.

“This is a PRC-only pilot for now. At the end of the pilot, Intel will determine what, if any other similar product should be offered in other geographies,” said Daniel Snyder, a spokesperson for Intel.

Verrrrrry interestink. Unlocked Clarksdale could be interesting, if only because you could push the chip to its limits while retaining access to memory multipliers better than 4:12 and QPI multipliers better than 12x.

 

[cbn]

These are the lower end processors that have the unlocked multipliers right?

If so, why do you think Intel is doing this?

 

[Indus]

to flood the market and hit amd where it matters most?

 

[cbn]

to flood the market and hit amd where it matters most?

Yep, that is what I am thinking.

By unlocking multipliers, Intel is able to increase value with no extra increase in manufacturing costs. In fact, I suspect these unlocked chips are even slightly cheaper to make.

 

[Shmee]

nice! but will they unlock any of the lynnfield i7 procs? Getting an unlocked multi 860 would be hella tight, especial if they are the same price.

 

[DrMrLordX]

No clue on whether or not you'll see any processors with HT (i7s) included in this unlock spree. I'm guessing not, but you never know.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Interesting, but I'm not all that excited. If I was looking for the maximum possible overclock (more than I could do with a locked multiplier) I'd be using X58 anyway.

 

[nyker96]

nice! but will they unlock any of the lynnfield i7 procs? Getting an unlocked multi 860 would be hella tight, especial if they are the same price.

from the post, it's strickly low end chips, they probably won't do it for 860s just because it'd destroy their profitable mid range market. I think they just doing this for low end chips.

 

[LoneNinja]

I doubt any I7 will get an unlocked multiplier, as it would defeat the purpose of having 1k extreme edition chips. I also don't see any mention in that article of America getting unlocked chips, and I doubt they will give us unlocked chips.

 

[formulav8]

This would not hurt AMD at all. No one cares about unlocked multipliers except us, a very small group that would actually care.... :/


Jason

 

[Fox5]

This would not hurt AMD at all. No one cares about unlocked multipliers except us, a very small group that would actually care.... :/


Jason

Except in China, where computer vendors are much more likely to overclock computers and sell a lower speed model as a higher one.