Questions about OCUK's 9900KS chips.

[Solly]

Hi there

OCUK are currently offering 9900KS retail chips for around £600 and are also offering OCUK binned 9900KS chips for higher prices. How does OCUK bin 9900KS chips? Are all 9900KS chips that OCUK receives, retail and oem, part of this OCUK binning process? Are 9900KS retail boxes shipped to the purchaser pre-sealed from Intel?

Thanks.

 

[Armageus]

OcUK have confirmed on several occasions that Binned stock is taken from a separate pool (either OEM or Retail depending on what is available), with any "lesser" chips ending up in either "office" type machines, or pre-overclocked bundles/prebuilts rated at a lower speed.

Retail chips will be pre-sealed from Intel as you would expect. OEM chips bought as individual products (e.g. not as part of a special bundle) have not been pre-binned.

Buying either a retail or oem chip should have an equal chance at the Silicon lottery

 

[Solly]

Thank you for the reply.

This is what I had assumed, given previous topics on the issue. However, it's an expensive piece of hardware and it seemed prudent to be certain that nothing had changed for this chip in particular, given its rarity.

 

[Gibbo]

As already stated if you buy the regular chip, it has not being touched by anyone, silicon lottery still stands.

 

[McGraw]

Don’t buy an office build with a 9900KS guys

 

[Hybridtheory]

So thats why my 3570k wouldnt go any higher all them years ago

 

[chrcoluk]

Can OCUK explain why their binned chip is cheaper than the retail chip, and the retail chip is almost £200 above RRP?

 

[Toasty]

Can’t speak for OCUK, but I would imagine as it’s getting rare now. This was always a limited edition part, so the binned CPU are fairly low volume sales and were probably purchased a while back, newer retail stock probably bought at more expensive cost price.