It's official: Intel shuts down cheap overclocking closing Skylake loophole!

[VirtualLarry]

Weird logic to blame intel for the motherboard makers overstepping their boundaries, and releasing hacked bios's.

Why shouldn't Motherboard makers be allowed to innovate. Is Stanley or Craftsman, going to sue people for buying their hammers and screwdrivers, and selling them assembled into wind chimes? Once Intel sells a product into the market, that should be where their control ends, over how the end-user chooses to use it.

Edit: How is the mobo makers enabling SKY OC, any different, in essence, than what people who sell "delidding devices / tools" doing? In both cases, they are enabling Intel's CPUs to be run outside of their original intended specifications.

 

[PPB]

I never expected Intel to remove a working feature like this. Usually, removing working features after a product is sold ends in a class-action lawsuit.

The people defending their wallet are upset about this, and the people that defends Intel's think its OK.

It's really a sad day, tought cheap OCable builds were taking a comeback with Skylake (and this really engraved all my desires to upgrading to LGA1151)

I'm pissed off at Intel enough, that I'm debating whether or not to ever buy another Intel CPU again.

I've bought 4x N2830, 7x Z3735F, 4x G3258, 2x G4400, 1x i3-6100, 2x G1820, and 4x G1610.

I've also bought 2x A6-6310 (might be A8-6410), 4x Sempron 3850, and a few FM2 APUs too.

Assuming that AMD is even semi-competitive, I might be forced to go with them, for the near future.

Dude. Just. Stop with the low end pc hoarding. Summarize all those builds into something higher end!

 

[Burpo]

Why shouldn't Motherboard makers be allowed to innovate?

Because they also buy the chipsets from intel and have a binding agreement to implement them correctly?

 

[mysticjbyrd]

Because they also buy the chipsets from intel and have a binding agreement to implement them correctly?

An improvement is incorrect?

I think you are proving my point about their monopoly hurting consumers.