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Silicon Lottery Store Offering Prebinned Intel & AMD Processors Shutting Down

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System Name Main PC
Processor 13700k
Motherboard Asrock Z690 Steel Legend D4 - Bios 13.02
Cooling Noctua NH-D15S
Memory 32 Gig 3200CL14
Video Card(s) 4080 RTX SUPER FE 16G
Storage 1TB 980 PRO, 2TB SN850X, 2TB DC P4600, 1TB 860 EVO, 2x 3TB WD Red, 2x 4TB WD Red
Display(s) LG 27GL850
Case Fractal Define R4
Audio Device(s) Soundblaster AE-9
Power Supply Antec HCG 750 Gold
Software Windows 10 21H2 LTSC
On my 2600x I couldnt even match stock clock/voltage manually never mind an o/c, AMD really got the most out of these chips out the factory, to me when they aggressively tuned out of the box it is a good thing, I have never been a fan of silicon lotteries (I guess because I usually lose them).

Also with multiple overclocked or undervolted chips I have seen chips been stable for many years under windows, no BSOD, no WHEA errors etc. then boot up linux on them and sudden page faults or segfaults that go away when the chip is put back to stock, for whatever reason windows seems more lenient on unstable setups, and I do wonder how many overclocked systems out there are actually not 100%.

The latest example is my 2600x was undervolted and ran windows fine for years, I have now repurposed it as a proxmox hypervisor and was getting random pagefaults during p-state transitions, when I removed the undervolt its been fine since.
 
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