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Binned processors..

Jumper118 said:
poor you. i have well over 50 cpus that are second hand, some missing cap on the back, some with bent pins, nearly all of them work. and i've probably saved ££££'s.
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That sounds lovely, I suggest a visit to the local scrapyard and garbage dumps, I bet you could crawl through there and find a few more working CPU's, with bent pins and missing capacitors on the back :p
 
Dave2150 said:
That sounds lovely, I suggest a visit to the local scrapyard and garbage dumps, I bet you could crawl through there and find a few more working CPU's, with bent pins and missing capacitors on the back :p
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i tried, but they don't let you take them from the recycle centre because of health and safety/ liability reasons :(
 
I know of several people who bought the binned delidded 4770k's, all oc'd to a minimum of 4.6ghz sub 1.300v. So well within safe limits. Many of theese chips are doing 5ghz+ easily with slight vcore increase. Try finding a 4790k that will do 5ghz sub 1.35v, I think I've seen two on here
 
I'm not questioning how well they clock Setter, we know they clock well that's why they're binned. The problem is how much hammer they've taken whilst binning and benching etc.

I would not pay a premium for a chip that now only has 90 days warranty from 3 yrs and
 
I suspect that as they are known to be from good low voltage clocking batches, they're unlikely to have needed a serious hammering during testing. I do understand your concern regarding warranty. But I guess the type of users that theese chips are aimed at are happy enough with this.
 
I'm playing devils advocate a little here, I bought a 3930k I know will walk 5.0GHz with no warranty...

I guess they're fine if its been over clocked and deemed stable and that is called binned then sold on... If its been binned then used on ln2 for a load of suicide runs, that's what I would call scrap...
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
I'm not questioning how well they clock Setter, we know they clock well that's why they're binned. The problem is how much hammer they've taken whilst binning and benching etc.

I would not pay a premium for a chip that now only has 90 days warranty from 3 yrs and
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well to put it in this perspective. if you wanted to buy a similar binned chip like this not from ocuk, on hwbot, you are looking at £400-800 with no warranty at all and because people may have bought this chip them selves they are much more likely to have used it for longer on ln2 while they found a better one, whereas these have probably just been put in a board, booted at 6.2ghz on 1.8v and just had the voltage lowered in xtu until it crashed. then the voltage would be written on the box and move straight onto the next one. they would have had to go through loads of chips just to get them this good, so i dont think they would waste any time trying to use them for any amount of time. binning is very time consuming, so if it was my business i would want it done as fast as possible.

Also for people like me who aren't going to use it in a 24/7 pc (tbh i think it would be a waste to put a really nice chip in a gaming rig) its prefect, because i'm getting a cpu that is guaranteed to be fast and scale under cold (this is very important) without having to buy 10+ myself and bin them all and then sell 9 of them.

also the imc and cache should be good on these chips as well, with mine it holds 2800mhz c10 ram, with 4.7ghz cores and 4.7ghz cache with 1.2v and 1.9v :)
 
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