Overclocking, Then vs Now

[Mr209e2s]

Ok so this is more of a debate than anything,

 Now back in the days of early Amd and intel to seek out more performance rather than pay a hefty price for the extreme cpu you, i or your neighbor down the street turned to overclocking as a way around the high premium and general good performance on both sides of the chip that is Amd and Intel.

 But now these days at least since (which i may be wrong) K series chips from intel, they've locked down on overclockers, my main thought to this is how like how for so long were we able as the consumer able to tinker with our purchased cpu's and burn them up  or make them faster but now we're locked out of doing it again aside from recent skylake, so i guess my ramblings bring me to this firstly 1) why and 2) Isnt there some way we as the tech community cant get around it.

as always any and all input is appreciated

[papapoi]

i remember back in the day of 486 and 586 cpus always trying to get that extra power just for the sake of doing it, back then though it was easy to go and just return it and say something "happened" and get a refund with pretty much no questions asked. now almost everyone has tried overclocking with mixed results and i think its more to protect the companies because overclocking is a "at your own risk thing" even though many of them say its ok. i still have a few burned out chips lying around in storage to remind me i don't need that extra juice.

[JebKerman]

1. to justify the more expensive unlocked processors. they're a company seeking a profit, so whats the point in selling cheaper processors capable of being brought up to the level of the more expensive ones

2. not really, not easily anyway, and it'd be too much hassle for the general public. and if someone does make a breakthrough (kinda like what Asrock and consequently pretty much every mobo manufacturer made with Skylake) Intel could just release another update to "fix" it. 

[harrynowl]

Intel figured most people who would want to would continue to shell out to do it; and they were right.

[Mr209e2s]

it just kills me thought, knowing that back then yea sure you could burn up the cpu but in the end it was worth it if it could be done, now just feels like intel has to much power over the consumers, it would just be nice to see what could be done with the lower end processors, just hope that amd keeps up the black editions and actually becomes viable in the market again

 

 although thinking about it now, wonder if some well more intelligent than myself programmers would be able to build or change the micro code in the bios to change the settings