Founder of Silicon Lottery - Telegrams for Guests
Added 2021-09-29 23:37:53 +0000 UTCHave you heard? Silicon Lottery is shutting down following multiple generations from AMD & Intel that simply aren't worth overclocking anymore....and he is open to being interviewed about the entire endeavor of founding, running, and closing (https://siliconlottery.com/). He also follows GPU & CPU releases - so we will be heavily discussing the future of AMD vs Intel competition.
We plan to discuss:
- His background - what made him think of making a silicon binning/delidding company?
- What was it like expanding from a solo operation into a company that employed multiple people?
- What ultimately made him decide to close the service?
- What does he expect out of Alder Lake vs Zen 3D?
- What does he think about upcoming architectures from AMD & Intel?
I am really looking to the comments on this one to direct the conversation. Hardware rumors, running his company, and overclocking techniques/advice are all good subjects for thoughts and questions.
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Comments
How have you seen the impact of higher out-of-the-box clocks affect the overclocking scene, as many people today are more interested in OC’ing their memory and fabric or undervolting, since things such as a 500W 3090 with negligible gains over it’s 350W version exist. Thank you for your time.
AC_666__
2021-10-01 07:00:56 +0000 UTCPlease feel free to make changes to my question to explain it better: How far away can we expect to see CPU+GPU combinations in a single die rather than having to install a CPU and a GPU separately. And I am talking about Graphical power in chips that won't require installing discrete graphics cards at all (a CPU+GPU die having RTX 3090+5950X performance for example). One would think that the consoles having implemented this kind of technology albeit obviously not as powerful, PCs would start implementing this too. But this obviously hasn't happened and it really looks like computers are way behind on innovation. Also on a side note, (and correct me if I'm wrong) it really bothers me how high-end CPUs are targeted towards high-end gamers when 4k gaming does not even require a high-end CPU since most of the workload is done by the GPU regardless. Why do you think that is?
2021-09-30 23:23:07 +0000 UTCIs overclocking 5950x or 3080 worth it ? Not for gaming for productive tasks
Valko Milev
2021-09-30 17:09:34 +0000 UTCWhat do you think the future of TIM is going to be? Soldered IHSes seem to be the go-to for desktop now, but we're also seeing liquid metal applied to CPUs en masse for laptops and consoles. Could we see liquid metal take over in desktop CPUs and maybe even GPUs too?
Cleansweep
2021-09-30 12:13:49 +0000 UTCHell Mr. LawIsDead and Mr. Lottery. Silicon Lottery provided a service to the industry by publishing high-sample size binning statistics on most consumer CPUs; providing the most complete picture of where a CPU landed on the spectrum. With the increased trend of review samples leaning more and more golden, do you think that CPU marketing will devolve into being as misleading if not worse in 2018?
2021-09-30 07:36:09 +0000 UTCHello! I've never used this website before, so I want to ask some simple questions: What was it like during the peak of popularity of silicon lottery? How much volume did you sell roughly, and what's your best/favorite product? Did it really make a big performance difference?
2021-09-30 06:24:03 +0000 UTCI had an AMD FX 8320 OC to 4.8ghz (yea I killed it ultimately but the oc was only when it was needed) how did you know the chip was hitting it's limit is it just a matter of watching voltage and temps or was there a more sophisticated method or piece of machinery you used?
Alex
2021-09-30 05:14:35 +0000 UTCWhat would you say are the main challenges in dealing with selling binned parts with an overclocked speed "on the box"? Is it often that people come back and say a chip wasn't clocking as advertised, or some other issue that pops up a lot? Any specific stories that stand out?
qhfreddy
2021-09-30 04:45:31 +0000 UTCHey Tom and Guest, thanks for all you habe done for cpu market and pc gaming, I wish you luck in your next endeavors. My question is how do you feel Zen 3D ryzen 5 and ryzen 7 will stack up to the 12600k and the 12600k. I just have a hard time seeing 6 and 8 cores are able to stack up to 6+4 and 8+4 especially with what Raptor Lake doubling the small cores. Again thanks for everything.
Kinihun25
2021-09-30 00:21:18 +0000 UTCDo you think that the over clocking headroom that enabled the silicon lottery was only available because Intel was so far ahead of AMD that they basically artificially crippled their processors? Or was it simply technological limitations of the time? If it was market based rather than technological, are we unlikely to see overclocking headroom unless one firm completely dominates again in the future?
2021-09-30 00:11:52 +0000 UTCHow did he source cpus? did he just buy a bunch from the manufacturer, validate the good ones and return the bad ones or would he buy them from individuals who claimed to have a great overclocking cpu?
2021-09-29 23:47:36 +0000 UTCIf you kept running the binning service how would you handle the binning of the little cores on Alder Lake? Do you think people will just disable the little cores when overclocking, or will they try to overclock them too?
AdanFS
2021-09-29 23:45:45 +0000 UTC
