Intel succeeds in making overclocking uncool
 

Overclocking with Intel's new 2nd Generation Sandy Bridge K Skus is so easy even your grandma can do it and get extra performance out of her PC for the things she need most.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...1CfUA&fmt= 22

welcome to 1993; first Pentium released, locked multiplier, locked FSB, than came the motherboards with unlocked FSB option
Intel has completed their plan to commercialize overclocking, it was a long road, but now they finally did it;

18 years since the first pentium, they have finally locked it down enough to make it too hard to "easily" overclock your Intel CPU and get more value for money. Now you have to pay more to get an "overclockable" CPU, thereby defeating the original purpose of getting more value out of your purchase by running your CPU overclocked. Couple this with the fact that CPU speed is hardly the limiting factor or bottleneck in today's PCs, and you realize it's marketing, nothing more and nothing less.

Enthusiasts might still get a kick out of buying the Special K versions and running them under LN2; mainstreamers who bought P4 2.4 to run them at 3.2ghz or E6400 to run them at 3.6Ghz will hardly see the point in spending more money for a performance boost that's not noticeable in day to day computing.

I'd rather have no Turboboost and all CPUs running at their max speed all the time (it's still consume less than the Presscot P4s), at least then we might see some incentive for upgrading our desktop systems, don't you agree? (not talking about gaming, OC rigs here, but the average Joe rig)