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There are shops that buy CPUs in bulk and bin them themselves for suitability for overclocking and then sell the top performing ones at a premium. I got my i9-

There are shops that buy CPUs in bulk and bin them themselves for suitability for overclocking and then sell the top performing ones at a premium. I got my i9-9900k this way, they binned it for 5.1GHz and it had been working 24h non stop for a few years (it is still working fine, but I no longer have a need for it to run).

ip26 3y ago
Silicon Lottery shut down two years back. It isn't clear to me whether manufacturer binning got tighter, overclocking just doesn’t work anymore, or auto-boosting are their lunch.