Just been to Overclockers, to return a Q6600 bought yesterday, because the chip showed marks where in my opinion there had been a cooler fitted, i.e. it looked used. To there credit they changed it however, the new chip although not badly marked still shows some marks? I know that they sell Overclocked systems of there own so does this meen they check every chip and keep the fast chips for themselves???
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Do I have a slow chip?????
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As to intel testing the chips, the chips are tested on the die, so no marks would be left on the heat spreader! I assumed that to get the fastest chips for there own high speed systems they are testing lots of chips, to get a few that will clock the fastest. However, this means that we could be buying all the slowest chips???
Jokester "Each and every Intel chip is speed binned" you are correct except for them testing the chips when fully assembled with the heat spreader! The chips are manufactured on a large slab of silicon, many chips to a slab, then thay are tested on the slab and marked for classification, then removed from the slab and assembled.
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