Angushades:

HA they call you guys PC Enthusiast with the way you guys go about overclocking I wouldn't even pay you to pull out my weeds from the garden.

would you please go away! PS: and stop using the f word.

I miss the old days of buying a cheap processor and having it run faster than the $1000 one 🙁

Kool64:

I miss the old days of buying a cheap processor and having it run faster than the $1000 one 🙁

Well some of us were lucky and some of us got said CPU and it wouldn't OC worth a darn. It was fun playing the CPU lottery however those days are pretty much gone.

Angushades:

OK, so I guess it isn't stable then. If you build a computer for a customer and it was promised to have a overclock then it has to be stable, not your shitty version of stability I mean stable as a rock so anything they do on it works every time. What you wrote sounds so fu*Ken stupid it makes you look like a hobbyist, not a professional. What's the point you ask nizzen? It's so whatever you throw at it, doing taxes, uni work whatever it is it wont crash at random. Wrote from phone

Who are you to decide what's stable for someone! Go take your insecurities elsewhere. I don't care about your preconceived notions. Blindly believing that running P95 for days on end somehow can only mean you'll never have a crash is laughable! If your running your systems out of spec your taking a risk and a crash is possible. Let's be honest even not running out of spec a crash is possible. Running various torture tests might help identify a weakness in an OC sooner rather than later, but its not guaranteed to not ever crash and nor can it make a system 100% stable. End Of!

JamesSneed:

Well some of us were lucky and some of us got said CPU and it wouldn't OC worth a darn. It was fun playing the CPU lottery however those days are pretty much gone.

back in my heyday I had an Opteron 144 running at 3.0ghz. Not only was that a 40% OC but it ran at pretty much the AMD OC ceiling for nearly 1/10th the price. So I could buy a handful of them if needed but I got lucky on the first try. That chip was faster than the $1000 FX-57.

zeebaluch:

I've Intel Core i9 9900k runs @5.2Ghz at 1.30V since 6 months and absolutely stable. I'M using Arctic Freezee 360 Push/Pull Water Cooling and max temps 75-80 at 24c ambient temperature. That means I'm the luckiest one who has 1 in million chip hahahhah

Can you do me/yourself a favor and download this CPU test and see how many errors you get in the standard CPU test in the first 2 minutes? If you don't get any then you are stable... if you do, this means your CPU is failing at basic computations and returning invalid results.... this will cause all sorts of random corruptions and bad data to build up over time and cause serious problems. You may not see a blue-screen crash, but you can't even guarantee than your CPU will be able to add 1+1 and not get 3 as the answer. I found this software test as a great way to validate my 3900X + RAM overclock stability. Any problems with the RAM/CPU settings and I was getting hundreds of errors within first minute (even though I could still do render benchmark runs, run other software without noticing errors). Once I fixed settings, I am getting zero errors no matter how long I run it.

There is 3 Stable States i know of 😛 1st. Bench Stable (not fully at all) 2nd. Game Stable (99% stability achieved) 3rd. Stable as an Rock (can render in 3Ds Max 🙂) BTW if You can run BFv/1 or Cinebench then Your fine by my standards.

Matt26LFC:

Who are you to decide what's stable for someone! Go take your insecurities elsewhere. I don't care about your preconceived notions. Blindly believing that running P95 for days on end somehow can only mean you'll never have a crash is laughable! If your running your systems out of spec your taking a risk and a crash is possible. Let's be honest even not running out of spec a crash is possible. Running various torture tests might help identify a weakness in an OC sooner rather than later, but its not guaranteed to not ever crash and nor can it make a system 100% stable. End Of!

"insecurities" are you for real mate, such weak comments. I never said prime 95 was the be-all and end-all stop being stupid. I was just calling out somebody claiming OC stable. No wonder people coming into retail outlets crying that their hardware cant achieve such results, the amount of dishonesty and shortcuts that people spew on forums leads people to believe they can hit the same results which are BS. What happened to "man I spend hours getting this thing stable" now its just real bench for 2 hours and BAM! game stable.

9900ks be like... https://thumbs.gfycat.com/VacantSociableGoral-size_restricted.gif 3900X be like...get some torque baby! https://media1.giphy.com/media/UfHTnNQkH0Ymc/giphy.gif :p

airbud7:

9900ks be like... https://thumbs.gfycat.com/VacantSociableGoral-size_restricted.gif 3900X be like...get some torque baby! https://media1.giphy.com/media/UfHTnNQkH0Ymc/giphy.gif :p

Means very little when 13b or 20b will smoke it J/K BTW

to be fair the Semi has 2 axles in which to put it's power down.

I wonder what monster Threadripper will cost around $1200 ?... I smell 32 cores with 4.7 Ghz boost. With that on the market, what chance has an 8-core at that price?

3 $ for each MHz , that is way too much asked from the Sicilon lottery

robintson:

3 $ for each MHz , that is way too much asked from the Sicilon lottery

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ They have sold out, so i guess the price must be right, remember they are not the stupid ones. Bitwit received a 9900ks that was worse then his old 9900k, so there is no need to change a good 9900k, for a silicon lottery ks for twice the price.

TLD LARS:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ They have sold out, so i guess the price must be right, remember they are not the stupid ones. Bitwit received a 9900ks that was worse then his old 9900k, so there is no need to change a good 9900k, for a silicon lottery ks for twice the price.

So just because they sold out of 100 copies means its a good price? lol, You do know CPU's like these they don't make many to start with because its not a mainstream type of CPU that tons will buy. That's like saying "Look the Mclaren sold out, yet they only made 10." AMD has stepped up their game, intel knows they are starting to get less of the share of the CPU market even when it comes to Workstations. Why buy a 28 core for 10k when you could get a 64core for 8k, companies are switching and so are consumers. As for the guy who claims to be stable at 5.2ghjz, I guess stable the word is different for everyone if your computer crashes at all then it's not stable. If your CPU is not calculating correctly and the way it should be then it's not stable. Someone mentioned this already, just because your computer is still running does not mean its "stable". It's like saying "Yeah the HDD Workstation raid is fine because its on, yet its pulling tons of errors due to the raid is done incorrectly. Anyway, people talk poop everywhere this is the internet, show us some numbers and records on a video with a timestamp to really back up your "stable" build that way your ego can really shine. 😀 Just looking at the way he claimed he has 1 in 1 million with the "hahahah" at the end tells me he is talking poop. So I dont expect a reply.

angelgraves13:

People who spend that much on this will feel pretty stupid in a year or two when it gets defeated by $200 CPUs.

They don't care. Some buy new high end hardware every year... cheap hobby compared to cars....

Angushades:

Have you done any testing on it like lastest prime 95 or you all talk like most people on these forums and Reddit. Can you define stable, please? I mean gaming on it for a day or two isn't stressing it much and prime 95 without axv isn't either. Sorry if I may offend but I call BS when I see it.

What is Silicon Lottery's definition of 'stable'?

*looks at $418 9900kf that does 5.1 without deliding on a m-ITX z370 motherboard* Yeah that’s gonna be a hard pass.

Kool64:

I miss the old days of buying a cheap processor and having it run faster than the $1000 one 🙁

Oh man, that's so true. I remember getting an E2180 dual core, default clock of 2GHz and OCd it to 3GHz (I couldn't push it any higher because of the crap nForce 650i board I was using at the time), that system just cost me £200 overall. Cheap as balls and faster than the stock E6600 or on par with it at a similar overclock. Then roll on to a Q6600 and OCd that baby to 3.51Ghz it was glorious. Such nostalgic times

Only Intruder:

Oh man, that's so true. I remember getting an E2180 dual core, default clock of 2GHz and OCd it to 3GHz (I couldn't push it any higher because of the crap nForce 650i board I was using at the time), that system just cost me £200 overall. Cheap as balls and faster than the stock E6600 or on par with it at a similar overclock. Then roll on to a Q6600 and OCd that baby to 3.51Ghz it was glorious. Such nostalgic times

I had an E6500 I managed to get up to 3.2 on a crappy Zalman cooler. I was quite stunned. Ended up upgrading to an E8500 so I could break the 4.0ghz barrier. Which it easily did. then came my last old school OC system of the i7 980 and it all went down hill from there.