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Author was given these parts for free. Basically worthless test. If he was given the funds to buy parts at random somewhere, it would be interesting. But to ge
by namecheapTA 4y ago
Author was given these parts for free. Basically worthless test. If he was given the funds to buy parts at random somewhere, it would be interesting.
But to get parts sent to you from Intel and then say "omg look how overclockable" is advertising at its finest and by finest I mean worst.
- Dylan16807 4y agoI'm not sure why the price matters. And reviewers don't tend to get golden samples in general; it's possible overclockers get some but I'd want to see evidence. Since they sent 14 this is probably legitimate.
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- namecheapTA 4y agoIt's not the Price that matters, it's the source. "Since they were sent 14 this is probably legitimate"??? Are you saying intel couldn't find 14 of the best of the best to send him? 2 they could pull off, but not 14?
- pmontra 4y agoIt's inherently worthless because none of us are going to overclock our PCs and cool them with liquid nitrogen in daily use. It's a sport and top athletes routinely get their tools for free from manufacturers. In some cases they are custom built. An example where tools matter much more than the people using them: Formula 1' 1.6 liter engines are built, tested on a bench and only the best ones go into cars, 3 of them per car per year if nothing goes wrong. The author basically did that with CPUs.
- szundi 4y agoAccording to this logic, life is meaningless
- baq 4y agoTry not to think about that too much. We’re all going to die, our planet will be consumed by our dying star and our galaxy will end up forever alone due to expansion of space. Life is an accident of chemistry, an inevitable outcome of an infinite universe.
- alrlroipsp 4y agoWhich is objectively true. What is your point?
- ordu 4y agoMeaning is inherently subjective, so there is no point in the appeal to objectivity.
- mhh__ 4y agoIf you're gonna go the effort of doing this I see no reason at all why playing the silicon lottery is a bad thing. It's not a consumer test. Of course it's advertising
- baq 4y agoThis is a top class race car competition, not a family van shoot out. Top 0.001% percentile. No compromises.
- Kab1r 4y agoOverclockers buy (or receive) binned CPUs all the time. The cost of buying top of the lines CPUs in bulk for overclocking is simply not feasible.