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Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology
VCAGuy writes "It appears that Intel has pantented a crystal-locking technology to lock processors to the processor's clock speed. The Inquirer has a story about it, and you can read the patent description from the USPTO. Let's hope AMD doesn't try to copy this..."
"Just another way to ruin the life of the geek. Go Intel, make your chips even less appealing. /me pokes his Athlon XP"
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Um right. Like Intel'd do that just to 'ruin the life of the geek', that'd really make their profits rise.
Intel provides a service, faster processing. The more you pay, the faster you get. Unfortunately, mobo companies are making it a little too easy to overlock. It used to be that you had to muck with jumpers, now it's dipswitches. Heck, today you can call up websites to get step by step instructions on how to do it.
Can you really be surprised that Intel'd want to put a stop to that? I mean seriously, the faster the info gets around, the more people do it, the fewer people buy the faster processors.
Any time you (you == the collective geek community) popularize the less profitable service by a company, you can expect them to combat it. AMD will make the same move down the road. Whine all you want, but Intel and AMD both are out to make money. If they don't make enough of it, they'll move out of the business. At some point, they have to be paid for services they provide.
It's sad that Intel is trying to block a level of tweakability, but I can't say I'm surprised. I'm certainly not ready to raise the pitchforks towards them. If anything, I'd aim it at the Geek Community who put it in Intel's sights. Good job guys.