Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology 593
VCAGuy writes "It appears that Intel has pantented a crystal-locking technology to lock processors to the processor's clock speed. The Inquirer has a story about it, and you can read the patent description from the USPTO. Let's hope AMD doesn't try to copy this..."
curses...foiled again! (Score:5, Funny)
I cant wait (Score:2, Funny)
underclockers left out (Score:2, Funny)
now if i can get a p4 down to 8mhz and in 286 mode
New Patent (Score:5, Funny)
Sooooo... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:i can't drive 55 (Score:2, Funny)
LOL I feel your pain, pal....
I have two AMD Tbirds in my desk drawer as remiders to 1) Pay ATTENTION to how much you're trying to overclock a chip (I KNOW I had that jumper on the right pins, and 2) ALWAYS make sure you have a heatsink on your chip when you hit the power switch! The chip in example 2 lasted about 3 seconds before the smoke appeared. It also toasted the moboard....
Electronics is all smoke and mirrors. If you let the smoke out of a device, it will never work again!
Phew! That was a close one! (Score:2, Funny)
From the patent: "Unscrupulous resellers and/or distributors may purchase less expensive processors that are rated at lower clock frequencies and then remark those processor at higher clock frequencies, a procedure known as over-clocking. "
Phew! I thought that they were onto us price aware hackers at home.
Its For Your Own Protection! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:yay, overclocking locks... (Score:3, Funny)
Hope you're wearing some heat resistent gloves!
A Joke... (Score:2, Funny)
The russian pulls a bottle of vodka from his jacket, opens it, takes a quick pull then opens the window and throws the bottle out and shuts the window again. The cuban turns to the russian and says, "Why you throw away perfectly good vodka like that?" The russian replies, "in Russia, we have the best vodka in the entire world and more of it than we know what to do with, I can afford to do that, no problem."
The cuban considers what the russian has said then pulls a cigar from a pocket, lights it up, takes a couple puffs, opens the window, throws it out and shuts the window again. The russian is non-plused, but the salesman and the overclocker look amazedly at the cuban. The cuban says, "in Cuba we have the best cigars in all the world and so many of them they just get in the way."
The salesman and overclocker each consider this for a moment. Then the salesman opens the window and bodily throws the overclocker from the trai
Re:yay, overclocking locks... (Score:3, Funny)