Monday, October 28th 2019
Silicon Lottery Announces Plans to Bin AMD Ryzen 9 3950X and Intel Core i9 9900KS Chips
If you're one to pay more bucks for the same silicon in a bid to decrease risk of having a lower-performing overclocker than is possible with the latest AMD and Intel chips, this post is for you. Silicon Lottery has announced (absolutely expected) plans to bin AMD and Intel's latest high-performance processors starting this November.
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X and Intel's Core i9 9900KS will be up for grabs in the website with guaranteed maximum clocks for you to peruse and then seat in your motherboard of choice. Just wait a little while longer for them to become available, since AMD's own Ryzen 9 3950X isn't yet available in the retail channel. Intel's own Core i9 9900KS has just been announced though, with availability just two days from now, on October 30th. So if you want to skip the hassle (or fun, as you see it) of finding just the right settings for your CPU of choice, keep refreshing Silicon Lottery's page. Availability is expected to be extremely limited on either part.
Sources:
Silicon Lottery Core i9 9900KS, Silicon Lottery Ryzen 3950X
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X and Intel's Core i9 9900KS will be up for grabs in the website with guaranteed maximum clocks for you to peruse and then seat in your motherboard of choice. Just wait a little while longer for them to become available, since AMD's own Ryzen 9 3950X isn't yet available in the retail channel. Intel's own Core i9 9900KS has just been announced though, with availability just two days from now, on October 30th. So if you want to skip the hassle (or fun, as you see it) of finding just the right settings for your CPU of choice, keep refreshing Silicon Lottery's page. Availability is expected to be extremely limited on either part.
43 Comments on Silicon Lottery Announces Plans to Bin AMD Ryzen 9 3950X and Intel Core i9 9900KS Chips
That said, they DO use a -2 AVX offset. Their whole ebay account sells the surplus chips fully admitting they didn't make a great bin, and they still warranty it themselves to make stock or their own claimed clocks. They are also sold on ebay at a discount, because they are known subpar chips.
Not sure what your issue with that is, frankly.
It'd not a crime to do what they are doing. You're being ridiculous... The issue is ignorance. I mean, this isnt a crime.. maybe in a metaphoric toddler throwing a tantrum because it exists way is it crime? I dunno...
ambient air cooling
How far will it go before it crashes? :eek: i dunno.
I'll keep plugging in those numbers - see what happens...
------
6.0Ghz single-core boost CRASHED. :oops:
oh well.
Currently singing along at 4.8GHz all core and 3.2GHz mesh.
I was very surprised to find out that it only come with One-year warranty!!! I hope this is a mistake and it comes with 3 year warranty just like regular COFFEE LAKE processors. I am sure there is a pretty good reason behind One year Warranty.
The reason is very simple.
If they give you 3 year warranty and the CPU goes down after 2.5 years, they'd have to provide one at least as good (binned for the same clocks or higher).
You have to think about the cost of keeping inventory in case of warranty returns.
For Intel it's minimal. They pay $200 to make a $500 CPU. And as time goes by, they can decrease the stock by releasing these CPUs to market.
So usually nothing will be left in the end and most CPUs are sold with some profit.
For SL the cost of inventory is huge. They pay the tray price (which is just slighly lower than MSRP). They have to bin (and sometimes delid), which adds further costs.
Some CPUs end up good and some not so good.
So for every good CPU (that they can sell for i.e. $700) they have few bad ones that are already less interesting than Intel BOX.
And after 3 years they'll still have these old CPUs that they'll have to sell at a huge loss, because by that time Intel will be selling them for $300.
Same you see with GPU's these days. They are binned exactly where they wont be exceeding the efficiency curve. Once you start OC'ing, that efficiency goes through the roof.
Can also:
-Run a stable daily 5.4Ghz all cores all threads
-Run a stable daily 5.5Ghz all cores all threads
-Run a working application* and Win 10 OS stable 5.6Ghz with hyperthreading disabled
-Run a stable 5.6Ghz single core turbo boost [5.6Ghz 5.5 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.2] set up using per-core clock speeds in bios.
-Run every capable clock speed at much lower voltage
*dependent on work app load
Then of course there are the impractical OC profiles you can play around with, yet are extremely unstable:
5.8Ghz single core per-core boost
5.9Ghz single core per-core boost
-The Many Advantages of Super-Efficient Silicon
All these profiles first attempted with Noctua air cooling fan running at 1200rpm.
Once established these profiles above can be run with CPU cooling fan at 700rpm (inaudible) YES, 5.6GHz inaudible IS available in 2019 with certain specific components.
Yes, these are only results of a single binned CPU and of course Your Mileage May Vary, but keeping an open mind to all the possibilities is indeed a large part of achieving these super low latency ultra responsive OC profiles. Don't close down and believe when buying a CPU binned at 5.3Ghz that 5.3 is all it has to offer. And yes you will need a performance motherboard that costs more. The binned CPUs extra added bonus feature is the binned IMC which can allow you to run super low latency high speed memory modules, and YES they also cost more. But hey, once you've assembled all three key components ahhhhh every working day in the home office is pure BLISS. Those keystrokes simply FLY faster than you can think.
Not for every computer, every use case, I realize that.
I grabbed a binned CPU in June 2018, the performance overclocking 2-dimm slot motherboard February 2019, the superfast low latency 4600Mhz ddr4 modules in May 2019, spreading out the costs over 12months so it wasn't so bad at all.
Yea, I could post a zillion screenshots but I'm fairly certain the TPU regulars are beyond sick of seeing those. lol
Helping newcomers make a decision or at least know what's out there, what's available - is still important, and especially those with questions while attempting to create a home office.
...One last thought: The folks at Siliconlottery.com do not mention all the other possible "above and beyond" overclocking profiles available to say a 5.3Ghz binned CPU for the simple reason they cannot guarantee any OC profile beyond what they have tested.
They're running a business, and that makes perfect sense. :)
That's fast like Speedy Gonzales! :laugh:
Here's a 5.6Ghz CPU-Z Single Thread Benchmark (screenshot below) I ran today on ambient air.
Scored 676.8 :eek:
“The cake is not a lie!” :laugh:
Have to turn off hyperthreading after 5.5Ghz, 5.6Ghz will only run with 6threads active.