Cherry Picked i9-9900KS CPUs have sold for as much as $1,199.99
Cherry Picked i9-9900KS CPUs have sold for as much as $1,199.99
Like their logo suggests, Silicon lottery cherry-picks the best processors from both AMD and Intel to sell on their site. But what happens when you cherry-pick an already cherry-picked processor? The simple answer is that you get the best of the best.
Silicon Lottery has tested Intel’s i9-9900K processors to bin the best of the best chips for its customers. So far, they have found that 100% of Intel’s chips can achieve 5GHz, 31% of chips can make it to 5.1GHz, and 3% can hit 5.2GHz. For these magical 5.2GHz chips, Silicon Lottery is asking for $1,199.99, revealing the cost of such silicon rarity.
Silicon Lottery’s testing uses relatively low voltages for its silicon binning, with its 5.2GHz chip achieving its amazing clock speed feats at 1.325V. Higher voltages to enable higher clock speeds, or perhaps a lower AVX offset, but 5.2GHz at 1.325 volts is an incredible balance between power consumption and raw performance.
Thanks to the aggressive binning of modern processors, the margin between stock and overclocked processors has been decreasing with every passing year. With competition as it is today, CPU manufacturers cannot afford to keep much performance on the table anymore, limiting the impact of overclocking on today’s high-end CPUs.
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