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To: Michael DaKota who wrote (41458)	11/13/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573994

<I think this is a good thing, that intel has this overclock-locker (hmm hehe)as a future replacement for the Multipl. lock wich is currentley used (and quite irritating as i have found out with one of my computers ,a PII333 at 5x, only 417 is possible, or 500, wich is just to high) . AMD is not stupid enough to prevent users from overclocking their cpu's, i hope .> There are two very good reasons why Intel wants to prevent overclocking: 1) Intel has a right to battle customers who re-mark Intel's products and resell them at higher speeds. Even if there are no noticeable differences in reliability (which I doubt), the very fact that this happens damages Intel's reputation for quality and reliability. Some people won't mind, but some do care if their CPU labeled at 300 MHz was actually validated at 300 MHz instead of 266 MHz. 2) There are too many people out there who will buy a CPU, overclock it against warranty, then return the CPU if it doesn't work without telling the vendor about their attempts at overclocking. Preventing overclocking can go a long way towards thwarting these shenanigans. Couple these two points with the fact that the percentage of PC owners out there who overclock is miniscule, and you can see why Intel will want to prevent overclocking altogether. I would guess that AMD isn't too fond of overclockers as well. Once AMD's CPUs become as overclockable as Intel's, you can bet that AMD will face the same problems that Intel has. Besides, AMD is even more concerned than Intel over lost profit margins and a damaged reputation for quality. Saying that AMD is not stupid enough to prevent overclocking is kind of naive. Tenchusatsu