Intel Deliberately Limiting Sandy Bridge Overclocking?

According to the crew at Bit-Tech, Intel’s Sandy Bridge is designed to deliberately limit overclocking. Here’s a quote from the news post:

A video leaked to HKEPC and posted on YouTube (see from 2mins onwards) confirms the fact that only a 2-3 per cent OC via Base Clock adjustments will be possible. This is because Intel has tied the speed of every bus (USB, SATA, PCI, PCI-E, CPU cores, Uncore, memory etc) to a single internal clock generator issuing the basic 100MHz Base Clock.

Thanks to [H] reader Anshul R. for the linkage.

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