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Coffee Lake Binning

115K views 874 replies 170 participants last post by  Silicon Lottery 
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Now that laptops have come a long way I have reconsidered building an i9-7940x for a socketable laptop with the 8700k processor and hopefully soon with an MXM 3.0 GTX1080ti. This laptop is going to be amazing and will be able to handle anything thrown at it, with one of SL top speed i7-8700k. I hate waiting but I know that this combo will be well worth the wait, unless of course the Volta video cards are released by nvidia around the same time. Fun times.
 
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Originally Posted by Silicon Lottery View Post

Stay tuned for information on Coffee Lake binning here.

Are you guys ready for Intel's enhanced 14nm++ process and the first 6 core mainstream Intel processors?
Hello. Yes I am interested in this chip, delidded. Will they available from you on the 5th? In your opinion will it be easily OC'ed to 5.0Ghz with Watercooling and delidded?

Also, do you guys sell motherboards? If so will you have the Z370 available on the same day as the 8700K?
 
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Originally Posted by isamu View Post

Hello. Yes I am interested in this chip, delidded. Will they available from you on the 5th? In your opinion will it be easily OC'ed to 5.0Ghz with Watercooling and delidded?

Also, do you guys sell motherboards? If so will you have the Z370 available on the same day as the 8700K?
They should be available within a week or so of consumer availability. I think 5.0 will be fairly common on a delidded chip, but I haven't tested any of them yet myself.

We don't sell motherboards, only processors at this time.
 
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Interested in what motherboards you will be using ? Looks like the Z370 Maximus X Hero & Z370 Taichi will be strong contenders but given that the socket will not last I would hope Asus Z370-A will also be used , or something such as a Z70 Fatal1ty K6 (presumably cheaper than Taichi / Extreme4 ) if not a MSI Z370 SLI PLUS.
 
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Interested in what motherboards you will be using ? Looks like the Z370 Maximus X Hero & Z370 Taichi will be strong contenders but given that the socket will not last I would hope Asus Z370-A will also be used , or something such as a Z70 Fatal1ty K6 (presumably cheaper than Taichi / Extreme4 ) if not a MSI Z370 SLI PLUS.
We'll be testing a few different board brands, will probably be using the Asus hero board as a baseline as usual. Hopefully we'll be able to expand our QVL a bit.
 
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I signed up on your website to be emailed when you have the 8700k ready. I used a razor blade on my Ivy Bridge build in 2012 but I am letting you do this one. I usually upgrade every 3 years but as we all know cpu performance has stagnated somewhat.

When the 8700k is ready so am I. I hear the Silicon Lottery team does great work! Looking forward to a new build!
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Now if ram prices would come down!
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Will stock be limited at the initial release and will there be pre-orders? Just wondering if it'll be hard to get my hands on a 8700K close to the release date, it'll be my first time ordering off Silicon Lottery.
We're going to get as many tested as we possibly can before they go up. Launches can get a little crazy though. We don't do pre-orders, but even if we sell out of a certain bin we'll constantly be restocking them as we get more processors in and tested.
 
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Yes, I'm soooo ready for 6 cores!

My 4-core i7-2700K turned out to be the best money I ever spent on a PC part. It's been running at 4.8GHz (1.43 vCore) for 6 years of gaming. I haven't even reapplied thermal paste, lol! I hope to get similar longevity out of a delidded 6-core 8700K.

Each new generation of Intel's mainstream 4-core CPU has been incremental and disappointing. The 8700K with 6 cores and overclock potential is finally worth the cost to me. More and more games are finally taking advantage of more than 4 cores. Also, having modern features like an NVMe boot drive and PCIe 3.0 support will be nice.

I've been watching and reading about Silicon Lottery for a few years now and I'm really looking forward to my first purchase from you.
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sign me up
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It's a shame the 4 core models are less popular. I kind of loved the thought of buying the highest bin (5.3ghz+) part. Because it would be cheaper of course. Since I already have a 6800k haha... I just wish that thing overclocked well... Buyers remorse. I suppose a unbinned 8350k wouldn't be bad since you could just nuke it with voltage and not feel too bad if it died.
 
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Put me down for a delidded 8700k @ 5ghz. My faithful 2700k is starting to show its age, as is the mobo. Gonna get an asus hero although the 12 phase asrocks are tempting. But the aesthetics and onboard audio of the asus and msi mobos are very nice. Wait for the roundups. First order of business is to get a cpu from SL.
 
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A question about the delidded but non-graded chips you're offering - are they units that failed binning, or just random units that haven't gone through bin testing at all?

I ask because the prices seem remarkably low ($360 for a delidded 8700K versus $380 for a regular one from Newegg) so I'm wondering how you're making a profit on these if they're not failed bins.
 
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ugh...
someone else asked but i'd also like to know. will the CFL 8700k shortage cause issue at launch?
Unfortunately it looks like it might. We might not get to launch as early as I'd like depending on how long it takes for us to get a suitable launch inventory.
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A question about the delidded but non-graded chips you're offering - are they units that failed binning, or just random units that haven't gone through bin testing at all?

I ask because the prices seem remarkably low ($360 for a delidded 8700K versus $380 for a regular one from Newegg) so I'm wondering how you're making a profit on these if they're not failed bins.
We don't offer non-tested chips. Those product pages are just placeholders.
 
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