Saturday, October 7th 2017
German Company to Sell Binned Core i7 8700K With 99.9% Silver Heatspreader
For those users who thought they'd like some silver with their Intel, german webshop Caseking has a product for you. The company has taken the binning concept that we've already seen with other webshops, which pass the onus of the silicon lottery towards themselves, and taken it to the next level. Caseking will offer Core i7 8700K products that have not only been binned towards achieving guaranteed speeds of 5 GHz, 5.1 GHz and 5.2 GHz, but they're also retrofitting these binned 8700K processors with a 99.9% purity silver heatspreader to improve operating temperatures for these guaranteed-overclocking processors.
Caseking is basically testing batches of i7 8700K processors, delidding them, and then applying Thermal Grizzly's Conductonaut liquid metal thermal grease and the aforementioned silver heatspreader to improve operating temperatures as much as they can be. The company is doing this in partnership with overclocking poster child der8auer, and brands the silver IHS with both Caseking's and Der8auer's logo. The silver heatspreader versions of the Core i7 8700K are being sold as the Ultra Edition, and Caseking are asking a hefty premium for their binned CPUs: €690 will get you an 8700K that is guaranteed to clock up to 5.0 GHz, €750 will guarantee 5.1 GHz, and the premium of premiums (for now, we'd imagine) 5.2 GHz overclockable processor will cost €870.
These are some hefty, hefty price premiums to be sure; however, the company really is taking many risks out of their prospective buyer's hands, in that they not only won't have to bet on the silicon lottery to get some good results, but also won't have to run the risk of delidding their six-core Intel CPU. There's also an Advanced Edition (stock heatspreader with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut) and a Pro Edition (Niquel-plated heatspreader with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut) available, for lower prices than the silver options.
Sources:
Caseking, via Guru 3D
109 Comments on German Company to Sell Binned Core i7 8700K With 99.9% Silver Heatspreader
And from what pile do they fill their oem pcs without der8haur branding?.
a) the chip is delidded for you, you don't have to do it yourself, on top you get a warranty replacement that you otherwise simply wouldn't have
b) you get a guaranteed good chip
c) you get a better heatspreader.
This has some worth. Seems some people are unable to understand this and instead go on to hate on der8auer because he does things they can not - earn money with the things he loves.
Likewise, I hope you won't take my criticism of your product with silver as being an awful heatsink material as anything other than that: Constructive criticism. It's not like silver is the only option you offer anyways.
Thanks for stopping in. :)Lol everyone does.
Playing fair after a think they could be grading their process rather than the chips.
For example and explanation , they may not necessarily bin the best chips out of a thousand (this is hypothetical remember that), instead relying on their process (delid tim and Hs) to garauntee it will hit (their )spec , leaving no bad(persay) chips to sell n channel.
It would be nice to know how they are doing this.
I am fine with doing this and its premium from a consumer point of view, i would not buy one but i get why some would, but it's the question of how they bin that concerns me enough that id only buy packaged processors off caseking if i was buying, which to be fair im not.
Considering the difference between coppe and silver as far as heat passing through it isn't much... you wonder if the expense is actually justified.
THEN, they delid and repaste only those which meet the criteria. The others don't get delidded, since it is for the sake of cooling he is doing it after.
Regardless, they can't be new CPU anymore, but I'm sure he would not sell them as such.
I know and except caseking are not alone in selling pre spec'd chips but i have never , ever seen a shop listed cpu discounted due to this.
And I am so sure they do as im saying ie dump them in prebuilts etc that like i said before ,I personally would only buy a packaged chip now not tray.
sorry for not adding to the discussion but the elf cables was my favorite line in the entire thread, and I refuse to give a 99.9% silver heat spreader any amount serious thought... Maybe they can also get Fatal1ty's logo on a clearance sale and add a red light edition for those that want to ensure they are getting completely screwed.exactly
Just like every other processor in Intel and AMD's lines?
If you pick a retail CPU up you are playing the silicon lottery. Period.
Chips that aren't selected by Silicon Lottery and Case-kings are exactly like the retail version, just unlikely to be the one in some number lottery ticket there binned chips are...
Seriously, we're talking 200-300mhz (at least with Intel :p)
I would be quite damn happy with the chip at the stock speeds since hell, even at stock speeds the Core i7 8700K would be faster than my current Ivy Bridge Core i5 3570K @ 4.4 GHz. I can't get my chip to clock higher.
Seriously dude, this took me like 5 seconds:
siliconlottery.com/collections/all/products/1950x38g
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113447&cm_re=1950X-_-19-113-447-_-Product
And I'm sure there are larger discounted ones than that.