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Intel's Anti-Overclocking Patent?
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Friday, 28-March-2003 11:42:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Top story of the moment seems to be that Intel have registered a patent to prevent overclocking. Info on Slashdot, TheInq, TheReg and overclockers.com. The actual patent document is here, thanks Greg. There's been a lot of jumping up and down about it, but from a quick (and painkiller-fogged) read it doesn't seem that big a deal to me. Intel applied for this patent a long time ago, when remarked chips were being sold on the market so it was a big concern for them - haven't heard of that going on in a long time now. Since that time the view of overclocking shared by the various manufacturers has matured greatly. No longer are overclockers viewed as evil people squeezing illegal speed out of products, but industry-driving enthusiasts who enjoy optimising performance. Look at the number of motherboards and video cards that say in big friendly letters on the box that they have overclocking features nowadays - clearly, plenty of marketing people think that it's worth pitching their products at those kinds of users. Finally, if Intel really go out of their way to alienate overclockers, it'll just send that (not huge, but not insignificant) portion of the market over to AMD. Of course, if it is implemented, it may well turn out to be - like AMD's multiplier lock - easily disabled by motherboard/chipset vendors or someone with a conductive pen, a pencil or a short peice of wire. I doubt our hobby is going to go away anytime soon.
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