Question about pre-binned CPU's

[beany_bot]

So recently I have been noticing more and more vendors offering "pre-binned" "de-lidded" and other wise cherry picked CPU's for sale.

This is great for those with big wallets but I don't really have the money for one of said CPU's. My question is, in looking for, finding and binning all these CPU's (lets assume 5-10% of CPU's tested make the grade). What happens with all the "fail" CPUs? Do they go out for sale? I assume they do. They aren't just going to throw them away.

Basically if I buy a stock CPU. Am I going to get one of the "rejects" and have a guaranteed poor overclocker? It's just worrying my slightly that as so many retailers are now binning their chips. I don't want to get a sucky chip just by buying a normal one and playing the silicone lottery as it was meant to be played.

Also the fact that you basically have to de-lid Intel CPU's to get proper overclocking is really annoying but that's a discussion for a different thread.

 

[beany_bot]

I'm in the market for an 8700k. But honestly I'm leaning to buying one from a company that doesn't offer pre-binned CPUs for the reasons above.

 

[beany_bot]

Not necessarily.

A lot of systems are pre built, it's quite feasible for those systems to be stability tested and the better cpus kept aside for sale and average performing cpus kept In the prebuilt systems.

Still sucks for those buying pre-built systems. I mean for every binned CPU sold. 10 "bad overclockers" are sold to people who are none the wiser.

 

[beany_bot]

It is worrying as you think you are buying a new/sealed product but are probably ending up with something that has been taken out and used/tested by someone already.

Worse than that. "used/tested and deemed a bad overclocker".

 

[beany_bot]

Not this again.

We only pre test designated system oem cpu's. The CPUs that don't make the grade go into stock systems we produce. It's that simple.

8700K only for the stock we have sold out of did we bin retail. If you buy a retail or oem cpu on our site they will not have been pre tested.

OK thanks for the answer, I didn't know.
Lucky I am not buying pre-built systems I guess.

 

[beany_bot]

Also. Yet product released that no one can get a hold of. Who thinks Intel and AMD are playing a game with us of deliberate under supply. Frankly sick of this industry at the moment!