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** MORE 8 PACK PRE-BINNED CPU's AVAILABLE UPTO 5.2GHz!! **
- Thread starter Gibbo
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So binned Ryzen then just after launch?
Obviously your decision but i'd have rather have had an X99 rig for the same price
One thing no one mentioned. Is upon re-selling others will pay the extra for it.
I sold my 3770k for more that it was new purely on the fact it would do 5ghz at 1.38v.
The binned chip will have been delidded hence the huge temp drop.
If you had done this to your original chip it may have got you similar temps at 5G.
Soldato
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Doubt you will see any binned RyZen chips, aren't they all soldered ? And I guess the 1800X will already be binned by AMD
I was so tempted to de-lid my own, I was just about to buy the kit on Ebay till I saw these on sale and bottled out at the last minute. So far my new chip crashed out at 5ghz at 1.34v (Realbench stress test after 13mins) so I know I my minimum is 1.35v at 5ghz.
I will try 5.1ghz at a higher voltage and see how I do. If 5ghz ends up being the max then I will still be happy because of my temps alone.
Caporegime
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When 8 Pack was a customer he was buying CPU's and graphics cards like crazy from me, then one day I said, dude what the hell are you doing with all this stuff you keep buying, he explained who he was, I gave him a job!
So you effectively lost OcUK one of their best customers and in fact pay him (losing OcUK even more money) to do what he used to do before but without all the sales generated for OcUK?
This is why in Business 101 you never hire a customer, especially a good one.
Does 8 pack for instance still buy tons of CPU's and GPU's or simply keep the best one aside for himself, then buy that one?
The I would pay a premium for a delid service even if it's £50 it saves me the money on a tool and saves me the time. Anything over and I'd probably do it myself.
8 Pack makes many times more money for OcUK now than he even did before Gibbo hired him.
In those days Gibbo could sell 8 Pack several HD 7970s and maybe make £50 margin on them, these days 8 Pack has his own range of PCs at OcUK some of which sell for up to 20k+ and have a very good margin on them.
I think Gibbo knows all about business 101.
Exactly !!!
Here is part of the big picture
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/8pac...-6950x-and-intel-core-i7-7700k-fs-006-8p.html
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This is exactly what the 4.8 bin effectively is.
Caporegime
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Lol @ Reviews
has anyone actually bought one of these though?
No point in having £24K systems with nice profit margins if nobody buys them
OcUK are a business, there would be no point advertising high end systems if no one bought them.
Strangely enough I am typing this on a PC with 4 way SLI Pascal Titans a 6950X CPU and 3400mhz out of the box DDR4, so yes there is a market for these type of PCs.
Yes, I've seen that system. It's mental!!!
Other big ticket items have sold so I don't see why not. I'm sure Gibbo or 8 Pack will confirm?
I still don't think you get it. I've seen it previewed on websites and in magazines so it's great publicity for Overclockers.
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Caporegime
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I do get it. But I've always thought of the custom PC market as a extremely niche market.
Out of all my friends and associates none of them have a custom built pc. They have all bought pre-made systems from the likes of Dell, HP, etc. None of them would even look at the websites or magazines this system was shown in.
So yeah great publicity for the very small niche market who looks at that kind of thing and who would likely already know about OcUK in the first place.
A great example of this was when I told my mate I was building a PC (as in a tower). He was like "do you even still get those? I thought those had died off when the laptop was invented." there was no point in me explaining why I was building a tower to them as obviously like the majority of people they aren't part of the target market.
So yeah it would be interesting to see if anyone has actually bought one.
On the other hand if you don't advertise then nobody can buy them.
Soldato
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Everyone needs a halo product, all the vendors do it, so why wouldn't e-tailers in the same business...
Are users in this country really that detached from reality that every time they see something expensive and it doesn't appeal to them, they think there simply must be some kind of injustice?
You're not the customer they're targeting. Just like those that moan about prices in general over the last 2 to 3 years aren't.
Are users in this country really that detached from reality that every time they see something expensive and it doesn't appeal to them, they think there simply must be some kind of injustice?
You're not the customer they're targeting. Just like those that moan about prices in general over the last 2 to 3 years aren't.
Free shipping TBF