Question about silicon lottery

[kofman13]

Ive always used laptops and I am currently upgrading to a really powerful desktop for audio production. I'm going for x99 platform with 5820K. As this is my first time I will be over clocking I of course stumbled upon "silicon lottery" and read about it. Kind of worries me.

Is it completely random quality? Or is there an average "decent" over clocking capability. Most people I see on YouTube and forums were able to get this chip to 4.4-4.5ghz. While some got a "bad chip" and could only get 3.9 or 4ghz. I'm worried about getting a costly system and getting screwed on potential over clocking

[Nexxus]

Thats part of the game. but its less relivent with a high end chip since the thing is already going to perform damn well as it is, at least imho.

Its going to perform at the specs its given regardless, if it doesnt its defective.

Dont buy something on OC potential just look at it as the icing on the cake. 

but ya its pretty much random what you are going to get.

[PineappleHolidays]

Most chips can reach 4,0ghz easy, and I wouldn't worry too much about it, the 0,4ghz difference between a good oc chip and a bad one will be quite small.

 

An example of a bad lottery :

My 5820k runs at 4,3ghz at 1,3V , that's stupidly high, some people are getting 4,5ghz at 1,25V

[ProdigyzMined]

You will most likely be able to overclock, but the "silicon lottery" more or less refers to how much you can overclock that specific chip.

[Maslofski]

you could oder it from http://siliconlottery.com/ and just pay extra to have the desired OC

[Johannes_Lazor]

Most are decent, If you are worried about the overclocking you could go to http://siliconlottery.com/ and get a chip which will overclock to atleast the number thay specify.

[Darkman]

Thats part of the game. but its less relivent with a high end chip since the thing is already going to perform damn well as it is, at least imho.

Its going to perform at the specs its given regardless, if it doesnt its defective.

Dont buy something on OC potential just look at it as the icing on the cake. 

^ This. Every AMD card I've had experience with has been bad luck, every Nvidia card has been golden, but that's just my luck. My HD 7770 could barely do 1140MHz on the core and 10MHz on the memory it would die in terms of stability, my friends R7 260X does 1295MHz on the core 24/7 stable, but 5MHz on the memory, and instant crash. My 650ti, 1210/1510 and it is fine benching, now with benching my 970, 1560/2081, that's the furthest I have pushed it, I need it to be colder, but it wasn't crashing.

 

Either way, you could have to be pushing 1.4v for 4.4GHz, or you might end up with something as insane like 5GHz at 1.28v. You never know how well each chip will do until you try.

 

you could oder it from http://siliconlottery.com/ and just pay extra to have the desired OC

 

Most are decent, If you are worried about the overclocking you could go to http://siliconlottery.com/ and get a chip which will overclock to atleast the number thay specify.

@Gofspar had him delid his i7 3770k that is an insane overclocker, seems they have been good to him. He can do 5GHz at 1.3v 24/7 without an issue.

[kofman13]

Most are decent, If you are worried about the overclocking you could go to http://siliconlottery.com/ and get a chip which will overclock to atleast the number thay specify.

I'm buying a prebuilt system

[kofman13]

Most chips can reach 4,0ghz easy, and I wouldn't worry too much about it, the 0,4ghz difference between a good oc chip and a bad one will be quite small.

An example of a bad lottery :

My 5820k runs at 4,3ghz at 1,3V , that's stupidly high, some people are getting 4,5ghz at 1,25V

Oh man. What negative effects does 1.30v have for you?

As long as I'm getting 4.2ishghz I'll be happy

[kofman13]

Thats part of the game. but its less relivent with a high end chip since the thing is already going to perform damn well as it is, at least imho.

Its going to perform at the specs its given regardless, if it doesnt its defective.

Dont buy something on OC potential just look at it as the icing on the cake.

but ya its pretty much random what you are going to get.

For my the potential extra 1ghz of power from OC would benefit me so much in what I do. But I guess I have to come to terms that it's out of my hands -.-