We're revisiting Intel's locked Alder Lake CPUs with a sneak peak of a motherboard that's capable of overclocking non-K CPUs like the Core i5-12400 to make it up to 50% faster in games.
https://www.techspot.com/article/2483-intel-non-k-overclocking/
Overclocking Intel Non-K CPUs: Core i3-12100, i5-12400 and i7-12700
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DSirius
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Of course Intel is not happy, being exposed as milking consumers with artificial price segmentation of processors for years. Though exposing them is the right thing to do. A wake up call for buyers. Want a cheap gaming processor? Buy an Intel 5 12400 with the proper MB. Want the fastest and best gaming processor for the money? Buy Ryzen 5800X3D. Want the best productivity processor? Buy Ryzen 5950X or 12900K, though 12900K platform is more power hungry. Better wait till autumn for the new processors from both AMD and Intel (though last news about Intel are that they will delay a bit gen 13 proc).
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Avro Arrow
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Like most things Intel, you can have anything you want as long as you're willing to go broke getting it! 
hahahanoobs
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This is one of those things that's cool and silly at the same time.
It works on a couple boards and Intel could put a stop to it and that already looks to be the case.
Just spend more for a higher tier CPU.
It works on a couple boards and Intel could put a stop to it and that already looks to be the case.
Just spend more for a higher tier CPU.
hahahanoobs
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Very first sentence:
We're revisiting Intel's locked Alder Lake CPUs with a special sneak peak of an upcoming MSI motherboard that's capable of making some of our favourite current generation processors much faster.
Not a review.
hahahanoobs
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Miliking consumers? They are offering the choice of locked CPU's for CHEAPER - for people who don't want to overclock. How is that milking? AMD is the one milking, since you have to pay for an overclockable cpu even if you don't want one. Like..WTF are you even saying?
Very good to know, 10x for the investigation. Hope FSB *ahem* overclockig gets more traction, as 3 motherboards, borderline out of stock, and super expensive, sounds like a beginning rather than an established market.
...and about milking the consumers, not sure what that's about. Yes the silicon can do 5GHz, but not all at the same power level, as stable, with as many cores, etc. Selling cheaper locked chips that can be OCed with a bit of effort seems like exactly how it should be.
...and about milking the consumers, not sure what that's about. Yes the silicon can do 5GHz, but not all at the same power level, as stable, with as many cores, etc. Selling cheaper locked chips that can be OCed with a bit of effort seems like exactly how it should be.
FreezingPC
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Prices on that MOBO will go up real fast in Europe.
It will probably be a 2 late 2 expensive type of product, shame...
It will probably be a 2 late 2 expensive type of product, shame...
FreezingPC
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...Or you can sell cheap and unlocked CPUs, make cheap mobos with descend OC capacity and still not being a problem for the guy who doesn't want to OC...
Sounds familiar... Of course and it was a pretty welcome move in the eyes of the tech community, now we just wait for Advanced Magical Devices to do an INTEL (again).
The joys of capitalism
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