I don't really get the negativity on this. The price premium makes sense if you factor in the rarity and work required. I see OC offering this service as a good thing from a business standpoint, if you can do something that your competitors can't you should do it. I would never buy a binned chip myself, the price to performance isn't there and it takes the fun out of finding what your set up can do, but if someone else wants to, hey, its their money.
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I thought my £500 rig was dear.
G4560 for £53 it's half the cores and half the threads but in the real world it's not half the performance no way would I pay over £200 for a cpu. I have done in the past and it wasn't worth it in the slightest.
G4560 for £53 it's half the cores and half the threads but in the real world it's not half the performance no way would I pay over £200 for a cpu. I have done in the past and it wasn't worth it in the slightest.
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Standards, everyone has different ones
no because its less than a half
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beg to differ.
for my uses i would see no improvement in performance by using an i7 7700K
I see there are lots of people who aren't up to speed with VR. By default if you can't hold 90fps it will drop the game to 45fps and use some clever trickery to reproject that back to 90fps. Oculus and Vive use different techniques for this. That is why every little helps as it could be the difference between having the power for 88fps and hence dropping to 45fps or holding a rock solid 90fps.
I get that people are upset that this is expensive but if you don't like it just buy a retail boxed CPU, seems pretty simple. Doesn't hurt that the option is there, for that, thanks OcUK 
I'm more interested to know what happens to all the CPUs that you test that don't meet the grade? Where do they end up?
I'm more interested to know what happens to all the CPUs that you test that don't meet the grade? Where do they end up?
I don't see why people would be upset... these are priced according to rarity. That said, it doesn't change the fact you're delusionally enriched if you think this is actually worth it from a performance stand point. I imagine (and hope) anyone buying one of these, especially the 5.2, just wants something that is rare and exclusive, which is fine of course. It would be quite sad if someone was paying that much over stock price believing they were getting a noticeable performance bump though.
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No SOME ARE NOT DELUSIONAL AT ALL. Some professionals milliseconds mean millions. 100mhz is worth literally this amount. Several of my 4.9ghz 5960X went for around 8K each depends on your priority......
Who do you mean by 'professionals' and worth it in what context exactly? Overclockers? Speed for speed's sake, the fastest at any cost?
High frequency trading? I imagine getting a trade in a few milliseconds earlier could net you large profits?
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I'd imagine the internet speeds, hdd speeds would be the limiting factor rather than the CPU.
So how can anyone bin untouched chips...
No idea that's why I said it's odd. Read the opening post. Your words not mine.
As I understand it the traders have equipment actually located at the stock exchanges so I don't think internet speeds would be a factor. I'm no expert though so take all this as hearsay
Its paying a premium for an unopened chip that is guaranteed to hit 4.8ghz. Of course it will hit 4.8ghz, they all do, hell that's the most minuscule overclock going!!
Would you pay more for a brand new ford fiesta if it was 'guaranteed' to hit 70mph?
as I said, I wouldn't pay a premium for any of them. and you don't have to.
I was referring to the people moaning about the price of the 5.2ghz, but on the subject of the OC guarantee, I didn't actually bother looking at that. But such vitriol over a gigantic 5% extra charge you can choose to pay in exchange for a do over if you get a dud chip.
Don't get why people are upset. Not every product needs to be for you.