Intel to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do

@ice445: Hence why there are plenty of people still sitting on a Q6600.

 

If you're dumb enough to buy a gateway, losing $50 is the least of your problems. the OP used the right wording to piss people off. I'm only seeing this on prebuilt stuff.

 

so how much i pay to unlock my i7 920 into a extreme edition ?

 

This dont sound like good idea at all, I will to bet if they do this it will come back to bite intel in the ass.

 

It's not that bad. Look at the instructions. You just run the application and enter a pin. I guarantee someone like the skidrow crew or razor will code up a keygen in no time. Different cracks for different processors. I'm def not paying lol.

 

If they take the enthusiasm out of being an enthusiast, it will cost them.
I get a lot of fun and a big kick out of overclocking mine and friends systems.
Hopefully Bulldozer will put an end to this.

 

This is an additional kick for HW market which is already rushes to hell on a godspeed. First, they killed Kenny PC software and gaming, now they're gonna kill the very essence of PC -HW. Why? Because "no one is interested or cares". True PC guys always were a minority. Everyone else turned out to be "just geeks" who will do just fine with MACs\overpriced crap\drm\whatever*








*there is a thin layer of sarcasm spread over this post

 

Well presumably the software unlocks the hardware, so it's a one off use and never needed again, should be able to figure out a way to send the unlock instruction to the CPU.

 

lol i am not surprised one bit by this. so which one of you is in the process of making a key generator for this thing. :3eyes:

 

Who do you think we are, mate?1
Also, to think of it... it sound impossibly hilarious:

Code:

Intel Pentium performance unlocker v1.1

Changelog 
v1.1: added 20 multi-threading unlock keys, 10 +150Mhz keys, 5 +200Mhz keys &
single +350Mhz key

Ffs :nerd: :nerd: :nerd:

 

hahaha thats just fan f-ing tastic

 

Wtf, they can't be serious

 

yea dude. i just left the electronic store by my house and the one of the girls that works there said that those "upgrade" cards have been are selling. which im not surprised. but they are going for $51.99 each, thats a little high imo

 

How would you know that's high if you don't know what the processors are upgrading from and to?

 

read post #1. theres a link. click it. go bout halfway down the article and it gives the processor that it upgrades

 

But how much does that processor cost, and how much does the one it upgrades to cost?

 

for that particular processor. im thinking maybe $120 bucks at most. but theres 3 to choose from

 

Review of it,

http://translate.google.com/transla...fox-a&hs=WX4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial

Intel's page(s) about it,

http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/398634.htm

And don't forget the memory upgrade to go with it,

http://www.downloadmoreram.com/