The soon to be released new architecture from Intel still has a big question mark floating over it, will their claims regarding no overclockability prove to be true? If the whole matter depended on them, buying cheap processors to get high end performance would be history.
Some months ago they leaked their plans to stop this practice. They were basically going to double check the FSB speed by means of two clock generators which should reference each other. With upwards locked multipliers for the CPU and "crippled" motherboards, overclocking was facing a dead end.
The only hope left was for the mainboard manufacturers to bypass this lock. But now it looks like Intel might loosen its grip a little and allow for some overclocking on their non-extreme processors. It only affects memory dividers, right now, but the future certainly is brighter now that we're closer to the real thing.
Link: Expreview.
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