golden chip

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I have a 12700kf I just wanted to know if there is any way to know if my cpu is a golden chip without oc ty in advance   

[RONOTHAN##]

3 minutes ago, swabro said:

if there is any way to know if my cpu is a golden chip without oc

No. That is what a golden chip is, one that OCs crazy well. If you aren't gonna OC, what does it matter if the chip is a golden sample or not?

 

ASUS technically has their SP scores for chips that are an indicator for how good they are, but it's far from perfect, and a chip with a terrible score could overclock crazy well, while one with a great score could be a dud. You'd have to confirm if it's good or not anyway, so realistically that score doesn't actually matter. 

[LIGISTX]

3 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

No. That is what a golden chip is, one that OCs crazy well. If you aren't gonna OC, what does it matter if the chip is a golden sample or not?

This

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so in a nutshell the only way to know is to oc the chip?

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, swabro said:

so in a nutshell the only way to know is to oc the chip?

Yes. 

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so there is such a thing like a potato chip?

[LIGISTX]

9 minutes ago, swabro said:

so there is such a thing like a potato chip?

Yes, every chip will OC different. Some will do much better than others, others will do much worse. Most of them will do roughly the same. As do most things, there is a bell shaped distribution, a few % are amazing, and a few % don’t OC worth a sh!t. 

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, swabro said:

so there is such a thing like a potato chip?

Yes. Most of the chips I end up getting have relatively bad cores on them (I struggle to get 4.7GHz all core in Cinebench, even though there are chips that can do that at almost 5GHz in that benchmark on water) and I'd classify them as a potato (though the memory controllers on the CPUs I've got are universally pretty great somehow).

 

I've got bad luck with CPUs. With Intel chips though, there aren't really many bad chips out there, so there's roughly a 95% chance you've got an average sample, a 2% chance you get an above average sample, a 2% chance you've got a slightly below average sample, and a 1% chance you've got a golden sample. 

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Lol tysm for all the information all though saying potato chip was meant as pun lmao

[Gohardgrandpa]

10 hours ago, swabro said:

Lol tysm for all the information all though saying potato chip was meant as pun lmao

It's true tho, I had a 10850k that overclocked great. My friend got one and that things wouldn't overclock for shit. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. I miss the old Core 2 days where you were really able to gain a ton of performance overclocking with the lower end chips