Sandy Bridge-E Overclocking

[MrPsych]

Okay, so OBVIOUSLY 3930Ks, 3960Xs, etc can overclock, but since they're just just Xeons with 2 cores disabled, so does that mean that you could put a xeon in an x79 motherboard and even overclock them? I dont know, it just seems weird that they're basically the same processor, and yet the cream of the crop cannot be overclocked, you know what I mean? I'm not going to buy a xeon or anything, I would find that stupid and I would have to slap myself because I just don't need one. I just kinda wanted to know

[Guest]

All Xeon CPU's have locked multipliers though you can still overclock them through other methods, just not to the same extent.