Silicon Lottery price on 1600X

[trents]

This is confusing to me.

First of all, to see an R5 1600X on Siliconlottery.com guaranteed to overclock only to 3.9 ghz at 4.0 1.4 vcore on a high end motherboard cooled with an H105 is nothing to get excited about. Most of them will do that, won't they?

Second, the price on siliconlottery.com is $40 under the same thing at NewEgg. Seems like a dealt to me.

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

I think you meant to say 1.40V and NOT 4.0V, 4 volts would fry that chip

 

[trents]

Thanks for catching that! I'll edit it. I must have been thinking about core frequency at that moment.

I also wonder if these 1600x chips on siliconlottery.com are culls that were found to be sub par in their testing. I would expect to get 3.9 ghz on less than 1.4 vcore on the average. I note they are sold out of most of their other offerings, both AMD and Intel.

 

[caddi daddi]

I've bought a couple of chips from them, the good ones have tended to run $50 over retail and very well worth it to me.
at below retail I would think that they are culls, but still not a bad deal.

 

[Woomack]

4GHz 1.42V is about average, 1.40V would be above average but does it really matter ? Most these chips OC almost the same so I don't think it really changes much if they test them. Even 1800X are +/-50-100MHz ... 100MHz already seems like a big difference but in daily work it's nothing.
The worst chips will still make 3.8-3.9GHz, the best 4.0-4.05GHz ... 4.1GHz stable is really hard to find as I see.
I guess it matters much more on Intel where can be +/- 300MHz or big voltage difference at the same frequency.

 

[Southpawjoe]

With Blackdesert Online running in the background, and pretty much what everyone says with 4ghz @ 1.4v.