Ivy Bridge E and SSD Overclocking? Say it aint so!

Someone sent in this story posted over at DailyTech.  According to the Blog we should see IVBE processors sometime next month. (just a few days away!)  Ivy Bridge E is the next generation to the popular LGA 2011 processor with quad memory channels.  

The blog goes on to talk about overclocking your SSD using the same methods used to overclock system memory.  Basicaly add some voltage and tweak the frequency.  I'm not sure how I feel about SSD overclocking since this messes with the storage of your data.

When it comes to the SSD overclocking, the upcoming platform is expected to allow you to apply more voltage to your SSD controller to bump your read, write, and IOPS speed.  Performance will be capped at 4.8 Gbps (614 MB/s), though, due to the fundamental ceiling of the current SATA 3 standard implementation supported in Intel chipsets (The raw performance of SATA 3 is 6 Gbps).

Back in the day there was a few attempts to overclock rotational drives by tweaking the firmware and increasing the transfer speed.  The results were not all that impressive especially considering that you could get a bigger boost in speed by simply adding another drive in a RAID 0.  I suspect that overclocking your SSD may have a similar impact.

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