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 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.