News: Intel removes modest 'free' overclocking from standard Haswell CPUs

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With Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, standard Core i5 and i7 processors offer enough multiplier headroom for 400MHz overclocks. K-series chips are only required to push higher. Things are different for Haswell, which removes the multiplier allowance for standard CPUs, making multiplier-based overclocking exclusive to K-series processors.

 

http://techreport.com/news/24950/intel-removes-modest-free-overclocking-from-standard-haswell-cpus

 

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