Overclocking is dying, Silicon Lottery announces shutdown

[Grim5]

Silicon lottery has decided to shut its shop.

can't blame them, CPUs for both AMD and Intel are now pushed to their limits by software automatically and often the differences are now so tiny that it's not worth it anymore to pay huge premium for a binning service that doesn't yield much if anything.

What is still surprising to me is that water cooling is still making a killing, despite lowering temps on cpu and gpu having negligible effects on performance in 2021, due to how "cool" they look water cooling parts and AIOs are still making a killing as people buy them just to look cool

 

[Grim5]

I miss the days where a blob of solder gained you speed as well. Was it the Duron that you could unlock by bridging a couple of pads on the CPU.

Back in the days a solder mod on the gpu could mean an extra 30% performance

 

[Grim5]

Or maybe the Pre-Order Experience Centre (year round fun), lol.

preorders.co.uk