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Intel's Anti-Overclocking Technology Simplified

John Thorensen writes "Found a fantastic article on Intel's recent Anti-Overclocking patent at Fastsilicon.com. Worth the read, as it also explains some of the technical and ethical issues of overclocking. Good to see that some tech journalists can still write material understandable by an average person."

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  1. Lies by Mohammed+Al-Sahaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    This article is a fabrication. The technology remains complicated as ever. Victory by our glorious forces over the AMD infidels is imminent.

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    Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  2. Re:404 by DirkDaring · · Score: 3, Funny

    Article came up fine for me. Maybe you need to overclock your monitor.

  3. Ethical issues of overclocking - by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Every time you overclock, you make baby Jesus cry.
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    1. Re:Ethical issues of overclocking - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      2: Every time you overclock, God kills a kitten.

      Just don't do it. You'll go blind.

  4. Not so fast by Jaguar777 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Error 502
    Remote server down or not responding.


    Looks like Fastsilicon.com isn't that fast ;)

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    1. Re:Not so fast by shekondar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe they just need to try overclocking their servers??

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    2. Re:Not so fast by HamNRye · · Score: 5, Funny

      It says fast silicon, not fast ethernet....

      What good is a smart bomb and a dumb president??

  5. Anti-overclocking by DrWhizBang · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now if they could incorporate and Anti-AMD-processor -that-is-faster-for-less-money technology, they'd be all set!

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  6. intels new anti overclocking technology ... by Photon01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Detect servers with overclocked processors 2. Post link to slashdot 3. Processor is fried :)

    1. Re:intels new anti overclocking technology ... by Steven+Blanchley · · Score: 2, Funny
      You forgot step 4, ???, and step 5, profit!

      (That could have used a <BR> or two as well.)

  7. join us next week on slashdot when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..we discuss the ethical implications of using your teabags twice instead of once, and we explore the high-tech solutions to this problem, and the clear connection to terrorism.

  8. THANK GOD! by FortKnox · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hate overclocking. Now I can't accidentally do it.

    YOU RULE INTEL!

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    Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
  9. Re:Ethical issues? by ENOENT · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's cruelty to processors, that's what it is! Murderer! You fried your CPU!!!

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  10. Who will speak for the chips? by tunabomber · · Score: 4, Funny

    If overclocking your poor processor to its death is ethical, then so is driving your herd of sheep off a cliff, or nailing your dog's feet to the floor so you can use it as a doorstop.
    And those people who post a link to slashdot without providing a mirror or cache just so they can watch some innocent, defenseless server get turned into a smoking carbon shell are no better.
    You know, IC's and other silicon-die based products have rights as well.

    This has been a PSA from FETS (Fanatics for the Ethical Treatment of Silicon)

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  11. Naw it's more like a go fast switch by PenguinPooper · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think the Lear 20 series to be more on target than the 767. A few folks modded LearJets to exceed .82mach without getting a mach overspeed alarm going off. They just added a switch to disable mach overspeed. So if one wanted to kick a lear to .83 just hit the switch and kick in some power. The only problem was a some point over .82 you would start to loose laminar flow over the wing due to some supersonic flow. Needless to say Lear did not approve of this mod and they lost a few Lears over this. However the older Lears are still awesome in flight performance without the stupid "go fast switch".

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  12. Re:Give us a way to turn it off by LinuxGeek · · Score: 2, Funny
    And just write a big fat: "THIS CPU IS MEANT TO RUN AT X SPEED AND IS CURRENTLY RUNNING AT Y SPEED. YOUR GARANTY MAY BE VOID..."

    On the cheap motherboards, the bios messages would probably look just about like that. For more, visit engrish.com. :)
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  13. Re:civil disobediance? by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's start overclocking, enhancing, and reverse engineering EVERYTHING to protest these laws.

    I started doing this, but had to stop after my overclocked toaster burned down my house.

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