Best CPU?

[svmlegacy]

41 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

My understanding is intel only makes one chip. It’s been that way for a very long time.  The deal is the process doesn’t create perfect chips a lot of the time though, so what they do is test all of them and grade them according to what parts work well.  Basically all 10th gen chips come off the wafer as 10900ks. They will have flawed bits though. Intel has a way to turn off sections of a chip that don’t behave the way they want. The can turn off the iGPU, overclocking, and each chip individually.

A 10900k is a perfect chip.  A 10900 is one where all 10 cores work, but a few of them are so high wattage that they can’t OC.

a 10700k is a flawed 10900k with one or two cores so flawed they don’t work at all.   And down it goes.  A 10600k has its four worst cores locked out. So a chip that couldn’t make the 1700k cut, but locking out that many cores for whatever reason frequently means the remaining ones age good enough to clock well. One might be able to take a lead 10700k and make a gold 10600k out of it by turning off the slow/hot cores. 

In principal, yes. Intel does make more than one chip, but in the order of maybe 6 different chips. (Haven't checked, just a ballpark figure). Obviously, there isn't enough 10 core rejects to fill the laptop market, so those usually are based in a smaller (cheaper) chip. For LGA1200 enthusiast, there is a 6 core die and a 10 core die, the 10600K happens to use the 10-core, which might indicate Intel's yeilds.

 

[SupaKomputa]

7 hours ago, kittsykat said:

Makes sense thank you!  wouldn't the 8 cores "future proof" me more than the 6 would?

You might already upgraded when 8 cores really make it as a standard.

6 cores is making it's way as a standard, so another 2-3 years before needing 8 cores.

10600k maybe a better choice for now.