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Mokey
05-02-11, 08:52
Hi everyone,

This might've been answered somewhere before but I have been wondering for a while what actually happens to the CPUs that you can't get to reach the advertised speeds for the overclocked bundles?
Mokey
05-02-11, 16:52
Does no one know? :(
FlasH
05-02-11, 19:57
Tis a weekend, someone will answer it x
Toonshorty
05-02-11, 19:57
Tis a weekend, someone will answer it x

Did you just give Mokey a kiss?
Finners
05-02-11, 20:05
hmmm good question, i guess they cant be sold as new anymore
Pancake
05-02-11, 20:08
They give them to me.
Mokey
05-02-11, 20:09
hmmm good question, i guess they cant be sold as new anymore

Yeah, what I was thinking. More curious than anything tbh.


Did you just give Mokey a kiss?

:closet
Alfizzle
05-02-11, 23:45
Maybe they go into there non overclocked rigs, or in a lower clocked rig?.. as we all know, every cpu can oc.. so im sure they find a use for them.

I agree tho, would be very interesting to find out..

Also to know how many chips randomly die when overclocking...

Must be a few?
Toonshorty
05-02-11, 23:46
They should sell 'em in the Bargain Basement.
Alfizzle
06-02-11, 00:01
competition prizes :D
RawZ
07-02-11, 08:03
CPUs that can't reach their advertised speed (which is about 2-5% of the time) get returned.
R1gg4
07-02-11, 08:52
Not sure if that's what Mokey is asking.

Take the 2500k it's advertised @ 3.3Ghz. Whereas you sell them @ 4.8Ghz

So when you put together the bundle what do you do with the chips that can't hold 4.8Ghz stable? there must be some? And surely as long as they reach 3.3Ghz then you can't return them?
RawZ
07-02-11, 09:17
Not sure if that's what Mokey is asking.

Take the 2500k it's advertised @ 3.3Ghz. Whereas you sell them @ 4.8Ghz

So when you put together the bundle what do you do with the chips that can't hold 4.8Ghz stable? there must be some? And surely as long as they reach 3.3Ghz then you can't return them?

I thought my post answered this.
Pepp77
07-02-11, 11:02
I thought my post answered this.

Im not sure it did - surely you cant return a chip rated to do 3.3Ghz because it doesnt hit 4.7Ghz?
Alfizzle
07-02-11, 11:15
Im not sure it did - surely you cant return a chip rated to do 3.3Ghz because it doesnt hit 4.7Ghz?

Exactly.

Thats like me buying a 2500k off you guys, then returning it because everyone on the forums can get 5ghz but i cant. lol


By the way i can get 5ghz, so dont worry you wont be getting any dumb phonecalls from me :D lmao
Mokey
07-02-11, 11:25
By the way i can get 5ghz, so dont worry you wont be getting any dumb phonecalls from me :D lmao

No about to become a subject of one of the competitions just yet.
Alfizzle
07-02-11, 11:34
No about to become a subject of one of the competitions just yet.


Subliminal messaging/Power of suggestion..

*cough*
portway
07-02-11, 13:06
perhaps Aria sell the poor overclockers as OEM chips?
joker3327
07-02-11, 13:49
I for one would not tell you what happens to them......simple reason if it does not hit a high overclock ...then I would put it into a standard speed PC... as its not secondhand because its only been tested !
Mokey
07-02-11, 14:11
I for one would not tell you what happens to them......simple reason if it does not hit a high overclock ...then I would put it into a standard speed PC... as its not secondhand because its only been tested !

This is what I guess would happen. If it doesn't reach the clocks for the OC build then put it in a stock speed build. Trouble is that if that is right then if you buy a stock speed bundle there is a better chance you are going to get a bad overclocker than getting a new chip on its own.
joker3327
07-02-11, 14:16
True ..but it might not be stable at 4.7 or 4.8 but happily works at 4.6

there is also no guarantee that a CPU you buy will OC... I think the only way to be sure its not been "Tested" is to buy retail boxed....
Mr. Grapes
07-02-11, 15:18
why do you think there are multiple levels of OC bundles... ;)
RawZ
07-02-11, 16:18
If a CPU doesn't hit it's target OC speed, it will be tried into a different bundle/system that is OC'd lower. We do at time use them in non-OC systems, but not always. I'm sure the end user wouldn't appreciate the fact that their CPU in theur new PC was thrashed about a bit.
Mokey
07-02-11, 16:42
If a CPU doesn't hit it's target OC speed, it will be tried into a different bundle/system that is OC'd lower. We do at time use them in non-OC systems, but not always. I'm sure the end user wouldn't appreciate the fact that their CPU in theur new PC was thrashed about a bit.

I suppose if you are buying a pre overclocked system (or a prebuilt system of any kind for that matter) then you aren't likely going to be messing around with the bios or attempting to get a higher overclock as the sort of people that will do this are the sort who would build their system themself anyway.
ArthurHucksake
19-02-11, 12:01
If they come as an overclocked bundle and stress tested for 48 hrs I assume that the overclock is solid before they are shipped?

I've always been in the do it yourself category but having had an i7 950 from a more recent bunch that would be lucky to get 3.7Ghz stable the pre-OCed bundle options interest me.
lordra
26-03-11, 13:35
If a CPU doesn't hit it's target OC speed, it will be tried into a different bundle/system that is OC'd lower. We do at time use them in non-OC systems, but not always. I'm sure the end user wouldn't appreciate the fact that their CPU in theur new PC was thrashed about a bit.

I guess this is the most business ethical thing to do to keep losses down to a minimum while making sure all systems are good to go.