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Guru3D.com » News » Silicon Lottery Store For PreBinned CPUs shuts Down

Silicon Lottery Store For PreBinned CPUs shuts Down

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/29/2021 08:56 AM | source: siliconlottery.com | 22 comment(s)
Silicon Lottery Store For PreBinned CPUs shuts Down

You probably can remember Silicon Lottery, a store where you can purchase CPUs that have been binned and guaranteed for overclocking. Well, it is closing shop unfortunately.

There likely are many reasons, however, AMD and intel bin their CPUs extremely well themselves these days, bringing OC potential often as close as 10% from each other. Next to that a number of reasons have had an impact on the store. Because of this optimization of existing silicon, the store had a limited opportunity to discover sufficiently faster processors to sell as a result of the limited opportunity. The general component shortages and delays related with the COVID-19 pandemic have also had an influence on the company's operations, according to the company's official statement, which may be seen below.

Silicon Lottery
Our online store will be closing on October 31, 2021. Any orders placed for our delidding service will need to be delivered to us by November 30, 2021 for completion. For warranty or other assistance after we close the store, contact us at the email listed on your packing slip.

We have had a fantastic time these past seven years at Silicon Lottery. This business has grown and made an impact on so many people, more than I ever imagined was possible. I personally appreciate all of you that I've been able to talk with over these years, from troubleshooting to general questions to speculation. It's been so easy to connect with so many of you through this hobby we share.

We're shutting down not for just one reason, but for a combination of many. As you may be aware, overclocking headroom has been dwindling these past several years with manufacturers offering higher frequencies at stock, better boosting algorithms, and tighter bins between models which reduces overclock frequency variation (the 11900K is essentially a binned 11700K, so with the 11900K we're binning what has already been fairly heavily binned). This type of product segmentation is nothing new, but having such minor differences between two models is a more recent shift. Intel has also switched from a polymer TIM back to a solder TIM starting with their 9th generation CPUs, which has reduced the thermal benefits achieved from delidding. In addition, supply issues have taken a major toll on us, even before the pandemic started. Our orders with distributors for the last few releases have been nightmares of delays upon delays.

With all of this in mind, sales have fallen below the point where it makes sense for us to keep the store open. We know many of you are eagerly wanting Alder Lake CPUs, and we're sorry that we won't be able to fulfill your needs this time. We have seen your emails rolling in these past couple of weeks, and we're sorry for not getting back to you guys earlier as we've been busy juggling this decision.

While we will be closed for the foreseeable future, it's not necessarily goodbye forever. If things change in the market, in particular if overclocking headroom and variation increases for whatever reason, it's possible we will get things rolling again.

We wish all of you the best, and to keep having fun tweaking hardware!







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TheDeeGee
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#5950233 Posted on: 09/29/2021 10:02 AM
Overclocking is a dying breed, there is very little to gain these days.

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#5950234 Posted on: 09/29/2021 10:11 AM
Most people don't really need to overclock their CPUs hugely and definitely not those top-end users who were their target market. They will always be GPU limited, even with a 3090.

Their market disappeared with 4K monitors.

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#5950241 Posted on: 09/29/2021 10:49 AM
My latest 5950X build is the first PC I've ever owned that I haven't even bothered to attempt to overclock. The additional heat and gains just don't really make sense anymore, my last Intel CPU (3770K) had a ~1.5 GHz overclock on it for years, so was a pretty tasty jump in performance.

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#5950244 Posted on: 09/29/2021 11:09 AM
Overclocking is a dying breed, there is very little to gain these days.

Not dying, but commodified by advancement in technology. CPUs have been implementing dynamic power/clock controls in real-time that's getting better at squeezing any OC headroom by its own, at every successive generation. What is certainly not dying is the business of more efficient cooling implements.
Only extreme (competitive) overclocking with sub-zero cooling and hardmods is justifying such a marketplace of pre-binnedd SKUs, but that niche has been tinned out.

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#5950288 Posted on: 09/29/2021 02:12 PM
Most people don't really need to overclock their CPUs hugely and definitely not those top-end users who were their target market. They will always be GPU limited, even with a 3090.

Their market disappeared with 4K monitors.


Considering how small the market of 4K monitors actually is in the realm of 1080P and 1440p 144hz monitors you are pretty ignorant.

Most of the people I know that have a high-end gpu do not play at 4K and most of them don't care for it.

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