Ivy i3s

[VirtualLarry]

The difference today is that we cannot overclock the fsb/bclk anymore since they set everything (SATA, PCIe, etc) to run off that frequency - and those portions cannot be locked to a set value like we could do back in the 'good old days.'

Well, with a little clever engineering, they could be locked to their proper clockspeeds, but Intel intentionally De-engineered them, to prevent overclocking.

 

[djshortsleeve]

Intel® Core™ i5-3570K, Intel® SSD 520 120GB, Intel® Desktop Board DZ77GA-70K, SilverStone Strider + 750W PSU, EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified ULTRA, Logitech Gaming Keyboard G110, D-Link DWA-130, Lite-On 12X Internal Blu-Ray/DVDRW, Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3-1600MHz, Corsair Vengeance M90 Mouse, Corsair H100 CPU Liquid Cooler, Corsair CC600TM Graphite Series 600T, Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows 7 Home 64

mirin system

 

[2is]

What if they made an I3 3120K

I would flip out, that thing would be awesome.

How about an UNLOCKABLE i3 3120k!

Obviously it won't happen, but still fun to talk about. AMD's enthusiast market would plummet if such a product existed.