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Wow, brutal move on intel's part. It's a messy world where you spend extra money to cripple a chip just so you can justify the expense of the premium model
You need to either spend more and get the 2500k, which you can overclock, or spend less and get a Phenom II X4. Six cores is pointless for gaming.
Clock for clock the new intel chips murder the AMD ones, so the only reason to go AMD is to save money.
Not really that drastic a change of tack though, Intel has been locking multipliers since the 1990s (Pentium 2) it's just now the 'loophole' of bus overclocking has been closed off. Makes sense to me as people have been taking the mick for too long, for example I've never spent £200 on an Intel CPU, always buying midrange/cheaper stuff (300A / P3-650E / P4-1.6A / E4300 / i5-750) and overclocking it wheres technically speaking to get that level of performance I probably should have been shelling out well in excess of £300.