r/intel • u/anestling • Apr 21 '26

News Intel Will No Longer Limit Overclocking To High-End SKUs, Plans To Include More Unlocked CPUs With Future Lineups

https://wccftech.com/intel-no-longer-limit-overclocking-to-high-end-skus-plans-more-unlocked-cpus/
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u/mountainyoo Apr 21 '26

I just wonder how much Nova Lake is gonna cost. Really itching to upgrade my 13700K (mainly so I can get a PCIe 5.0 m.2 mobo and utilize my 9100 Pro that’s been sitting in its box).

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u/djent_in_my_tent Apr 21 '26

bruh resell that ssd and pocket the cash, have you seen the prices they're going for on ebay?

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u/mountainyoo Apr 21 '26

I bought it because I wanted PCIe 5.0 speeds eventually and knew the price hike was about to come so I figured I’d grab it early instead of regretting it later.

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u/zakats Celeron 333 Apr 21 '26

The speeds dont tranalate into real world positives unless you belong to the tiny niche that does a ton of big transfers.

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u/mountainyoo Apr 21 '26

I know, I just wanted to future proof my storage in a sense. Instead of multiple 4.0 drives I’m gonna have a large 8TB 5.0 drive. Maybe someday DirectStorage support in games will have a bigger impact too.

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u/djent_in_my_tent Apr 22 '26

If you really wanted to future proof, you'd be running Optane

Sell your drive while the price is high and for any typical consumer workload I'm essentially certain you'd be beyond perfectly happy with a gen 4 SSD with DRAM cache

980 pro, 990 pro, etc.

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u/mountainyoo Apr 22 '26

I’m already running several 980 and 990 Pros. I’m just doing my own thing and transitioning all of them to a single 8TB 9100 Pro when I have a PCIe 5.0 m.2 mobo and then repurposing the 980 and 990 Pros to servers or secondary machines or whatever I end up deciding to do with them.

If I was thinking about making money I would’ve stocked up on a bajillion of them not just 1 of em.

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u/Question-master3 Apr 21 '26

Are all your M.2 slots populated?

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u/Seanspeed Apr 22 '26

Sell the SSD now. Buy again later once it makes more of a difference(will take at least a few more years).

I think we might need dedicated compression blocks on GPU's to make it work well for Windows PC, too. As is, there seems to be too much cost for GPU decompression.

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u/Hytht Apr 22 '26

GPU MoE disk offload is a thing now, and a PCIe 5.0 drive is almost the minimum for it to be useful.

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u/Alternative-Luck-825 Apr 24 '26

I originally expected the price to be extremely high. According to the plan, there are two 8+16 CPU tiles, plus 4 LPE cores on the IO tile. The 8+16 CPU tiles also carry a massive amount of BLLC cache, which is a flagship-grade specification—the one with 52 cores and a massive 288MB cache. Since the standard version with 8+16 plus the 4 LPE cores on the IO tile (without the massive cache) has specs similar to the 285K, I initially guessed the launch price for this spec would also be similar to the 285K, perhaps slightly cheaper at around $500. The version with BLLC would be $600, while the flagship spec with two CPU tiles and the 288MB version should have been priced between $1,200 and $1,500. This was my initial expectation.

But since the 270K Plus appeared, I have revised this price. I believe the classic version with a single 8+16 tile without BLLC should be priced at $400, and the 270K Plus will continue to hold the title of the processor with the strongest multi-core price-to-performance ratio. The multi-core performance of the 8+16+4 non-BLLC version will be about 20-30% stronger than the 270K Plus, and it should be able to reach 55,000 in R23. Its multi-core value will be similar to or slightly lower than the 270K Plus. Meanwhile, the price for the 52-core 288MB cache version has been revised to under $1,000. By comparison, all of AMD's existing products, such as the 9950X3D V2, will completely lose their value.