Evil Intel disables free overclocking from Haswell

[bemylove]

Intel removes modest 'free' overclocking from standard Haswell CPUs - The Tech Report

In the past with Ms Ivy and Sandy

Intel's K-series processors offer fully unlocked multipliers that place few restrictions on overclocking. With Sandy Bridge and its Ivy Bridge successor, Intel has also allowed limited overclocking on regular Core i5/i7 CPUs that aren't part of the K series.

On those regular-model chips, one may increase the maximum Turbo multipliers by four "bins" above stock, effectively delivering up to a 400MHz overclock.

Now Mr Haswell

When we were discussing Haswell overclocking on this week's podcast, we weren't sure whether Intel had extended limited multiplier control to non-K Haswell products. We checked with the firm and are sad to report that this feature has been removed.

We've already reported in our 4770K review that, although Haswell offers more flexibility the form of additional base clock straps, access to those straps is disabled in non-K parts.

As a result, with Haswell, overclocking support is now almost entirely confined to K-series CPUs.

Intel says it's targeting non-K chips at "the business and consumer market where overclocking is generally not performed."

No reason to buy a Z87 board if you dont buy K-series CPUs.

 

[bhtan83]

Intel removes modest 'free' overclocking from standard Haswell CPUs - The Tech Report

In the past with Ms Ivy and Sandy


Now Mr Haswell


No reason to buy a Z87 board if you dont buy K-series CPUs.

lol plus haswell is not fun to OC.

 

[naked123]

disable OC or not, its still faster than amd.

 

[Ferolare]

nah i'm cool with everything at stock

/and that's awfully quick of you to denounce intel

 

[Ark Law]

The vast majority of non-K series CPU owners probably either never heard of OC, don't intend to do it, or can't even be bothered about OC at all. So might as well they just lock it down to a single platform, wanna OC anything get a K chip and a Z board.

 

[yukita]

i have k on sandy, but didnt intend to overclock.
not everyone going for overclock lol

 

[terrykorkor]

don't see any point to OC nowadays, the spec now is so much better with the same price you can get like 5-8year ago.

of course if you wanna OC get the whatever K series or fall back to AMD ba. You can try to on your furmark or whatever program for like at most 1 day and then go back to an sweet spot of your OC(or even to default) after that.

all i wanna say is i think it's useless to talk about it anymore since they have already created this platform and limited access to overclocking.

wait for next gen(hopeful) or go back to previous gen?

 

[coyote]

LOL, this thread is self owned.

TS, in case you have not notice, the so called evil corporation has since change from intel, Microsoft, to apple, then now to Samsung and Google.

intel is doing catch up running android on atom.

suggest you a new hobby overclocking your tablets or phone.

guess the world don't give a hoot to intel until it gets serious on mobile.overclock for what?

 

[limster]

Intel probably did research and found that 99% of people who overclock just do it to get screen captures of their benchmark results and posting them on forums like this. Such people also spend $1000 on their graphics cards and even though there is no difference between 60fps and 100fps. They are also the reason why 1000w PSU exists. Since this segment has a lot of money, might as well donate to Intel shareholders.

My main gaming rig is using i5-760 at stock speed. BF3 60fps no problem, can keep up with the Gfx. No reason to use 3770k for gaming.

My overclocked 3770k systems are used for number crunching/video/photo editing with software that can use 8 threads.

 

[muddle]

Doesn't the 4770 boost up to 3.9Ghz? That's a 500Mhz increase over base clock. To me that's good enough anf comparable to ivy non k. What more do you expect out of a stock non k?

 

[xhlee87]

Bemylove is TS.
As expected.

 

[bhtan83]

So that means no more oc genie? Where locked cpu can be used to oc?

 

[Rocket3]

Haswell is a challenge to OC partly because some VRMs (used to be on motherboard) are integrated into the CPU.

 

[bemylove]

Doesn't the 4770 boost up to 3.9Ghz? That's a 500Mhz increase over base clock. To me that's good enough anf comparable to ivy non k. What more do you expect out of a stock non k?

Before Haswell, you can take any i3/5/7 cpu and give a 400-500mhz free boost over base clock with a Z board, on all cores at all times. Not just 1 core and depend on tdp load.

It is simple and effective and helps in the base performance. Heat and power wise wont be much over base clock.

It is really a good thing but Evil Intel dont even care to give you now.

 

[bemylove]

So that means no more oc genie? Where locked cpu can be used to oc?

Yes lo. The terms some called oc genie, no-k oc, multicore enhancement, limited oc, is gone.

No more can do to buy a $50-100 cheaper quad cpu and run it at 3.8-4.0ghz on all 4 cores constantly.

 

[MacClipper]

Yes lo. The terms some called oc genie, no-k oc, multicore enhancement, limited oc, is gone. (

MCE is still around, not sure if it works with non-K CPUs as well though. On paper, should not be a problem though.

ASRock > Z87 Extreme4

1. Add setup item "Multi core enhancement".

 

[bemylove]

I think it only means to work for all cores on max turbo, but no longer free boost above max turbo

 

[haylui]

anyway bemylove will always support Intel no matter what Intel has put into the CPU

 

[Ferolare]

anyway bemylove will always support Intel no matter what Intel has put into the CPU

he'll be back on form once IVE hits

 

[Henry Ng]

Haswell cpu notebook shipment has not reached Singapore. Most brand will introduce only 4700HQ & 4700MQ for I7, which is only booth up to 3.4Ghz. Not everyone here know how to overclocking here.