My personal experience with Silicon Lottery.com

I know this is not a desktop forum but it seems many of us Alienware owners are building desktops more frequently. I have just purchased a 4790K from Siliconlottery.com which sells speed binned Intel CPU'S and I thought I might share my experience with them. Like many of us I have never been able to get lucky with a "golden chip" but have always wanted one, this is why I went down the Silicon Lottery path, personally I would rather pay a bit more for a chip that is a known quantity. I purchased a 4790K speed binned at [email protected] with their test rig and decided to make use of their delid service, my thoughts were if I can control the heat a little better I may be able to achieve the magic 5.0Ghz. After some tweaking I managed to achieve 5.0Ghz @1.28V stable with 1 hour of both XTU and Aida64 stability tests,needless to say a very good result.

 

That's awesome, bro.

BTW, did you already notice that we now have a special sub-forum for desktops? http://forum.notebookreview.com/forums/alienware-desktops.1122/

 

What was the premium over a regular 4790K?

 

$650AU which is about $200AU more than buying one from our equivalent of microcentre but that includes shipping to australia and delidding.

 

That's pricey but very cool you have a 5ghz chip now. I'd be tempted to do the same thing if I went that way.

 

Yeah its not cheap but based on statistics from another forum only around 2% of 4790K will do 5.0Ghz under 1.3V, relative to the cost of my graphics cards the CPU was quite cheap. Shipping and delidding cost $100AU so $550AU actual chip cost and I don't have to worry about getting rid of the duds.

 

I actually think that is a bargain. Totally worth the extra cost compared to rolling the dice on getting a piece of trash with Intel's sketchy CPU binning inconsistencies. It's unfortunate that they do not have 4930K and 4960X in their inventory.

 

Mr fox, you probably get annoyed to the max with all these reqests, but please help me overclock my Alienware 17 I am running an i7-4710 with the nvidia gtx 88Om

 

Wow talk about thread stealing of the highest order. Plain and simple with the i7 4710, you are better off leaving it stock, 200mhz isn't really worth it, also 880m you can find many threads with this for overclocking.

 

The 4710 can be under volted and overclocked at the same time, it can be worth it with a high end GPU.