LGA2011 motherboard for work

While most Intel boards do not have frequency or voltage adjustments, this is not the case for the Extreme Series boards with the X79 for LGA2011.

Historically, Intel motherboards were some of the most reliable motherboards made, and were OEM in many computer brands like Dell. The complete lack of any enthusiast features, plus the shocking sparseness of the boards gave them a bad rep. They appeared to have far fewer large components like inductors and capacitors than other brands which would imply penny-pinching cost-cutting (and suggests overclocking would have been poor had they allowed it). However their engineers also designed the processors so would know exactly how much ripple they could get away with, and the Tawanese capacitor plague completely bypassed Intel because they never used cheap components.

You cannot say anything like this about their last boards like the overclockable X79 ones because some of them even had flaming skull designs on them, along with heatpipes and LED POST code displays like other enthusiast boards. They completely quit making boards after Haswell to make NUCs instead.

OEM brands have now largely gone to ECS/Elitegroup motherboards which was once known by another name: PC-Chips, most infamous for putting simulated cache chips onto their early motherboards. Reliability has never been their strong point.

However Intel was infamous for constantly changing their VRM spec so you couldn't drop in the next year's refresh processor (the "Tick" process shrink). Other brands used a more flexible programmable VRM so could usually add compatibility for later processors with just a BIOS update. Intel even completely dropped support after two years--for example some of their P35 boards were incompatible with 64-bit Windows 8.1 only because they never released a BIOS that unlocked the CMPXCHG16b instruction--something that every CPU that fit into the boards supported. Intel preferred to drive more new motherboard or chipset sales instead.

In a way it's kind of like how people hate nVidia for using their Gameworks program to add unnecessary tweaks to games that only reduce the performance of their older cards (as well as AMD's), until performance is so unplayable you have to update if you want to play the latest games. They are only trying to make money.