Intel wants $50 to unlock restricted chip power

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201038/6167/Intel-wants-50-to-unlock-restricted-chip-power

https://retailupgrades.intel.com/Page.aspx?Name=Upgrade

Really Intel?

I have no comments...

 

Why don't they just put on a mask and grab a gun?

Just a load of :crap on Intels part.

 

It's not as though their products are cheap to begin with.

 

Well, it is a poor concept to me, but how are they stealing? You get what you paid for either way. You pay$x for y performance. You can then spend $50 to get y+z performance if you want.

I have spent more than $50 in heatsinks and fans to overclock in the past... :-D But, in one way, you can spend less and get a chip that performs as it states, and you can spend $50 to upgrade it.

The funny part is some people will figure out how to unlock it without spending the $50. :cool

 

I don't see much wrong here either, it's not a bait and switch affair. Underhanded and sneaky, perhaps. AMD has been crippling chips for years, Like their 3X CPUs, ASUS core unlocker mobo's, granted AMD is not too happy with ASUS ATM.:-D

 

Be that as it may, it still stinks like ( you know what ).

 

Ya, but the kicker is in unlocking HyperThreading which is making the chip a virtual dual-core machine.

I don't believe that all the folders in the world would be utilizing all 8 virtual cores on an i7 would pass up doing the same work in 4 cores, hmm I wonder what the difference would be? When I went from a single to an X2 it was like night and day!:eek

 

My argument is what is the point.

Why do they put the stuff on the chip and then lock it down? Doesn't that just make the costs for them higher?

I thought the locked cores are due to them being unstable and instead of throwing the cpu out they decided to make it a dual core. I know this is true with the AMD tri core

 

Actually, after thinking about it, I kinda like it. Look at it this way, you are building a new gaming rig, your budget for the CPU is $200. Now, the crippled one costs $200 (I am making up these numbers buy the way...) So I get it, and in a couple of months I am ready to upgrade! So, normally you would have to buy a whole new CPU, pull the mobo, install, all that, and you are out a lot of cash and have a spare CPU. You can sell it for about 2/3 of it's worth, or build a backup computer. But you are out the cost of 2 CPU's.

With this deal, $50, I unlock it, and bam, I am upgraded, not hardware work required. LoL, it is kinda like overclocking that won't void your warranty. :-D Plus, does the average user need hyperthreading to download virus and spyware?, they seem to do well on on older 1.5GHz machine...

 

This "product upgrade" is kinda like when Coca-Cola tried to have vending machines increase the price of the drinks when the weather got warmer. At 70 degrees you paid $1, but at 80 or 90 degrees you would have to pay $1.50 for the same drink.

 

I like that idea also. The beauty of economics. :-D