Silicon Lottery is currently selling a highly pre-binned variant of the Intel Core i7-10700K CPU on its online store. This CPU isn’t meant for the average gamer though, since you need to pay a premium for it.
Hardcore gamers and serious overclockers might find this deal tempting, since they are getting a highly ‘binned’ variant straight out of the box. Not meant for regular or casual gamers.
According to Silicon Lottery 100% of the samples tested achieved a 4.9 GHz all-core overclock value. Whereas 68% managed to hit 5 GHz or higher. But only 20% of the i7-10700K CPUs tested could run stably at 5.1 GHz.
The Core i7-10700K which belongs to the 10th Generation Comet Lake-S family, rocks eight CPU cores, 16 threads and a 16MB of L3 cache. This SKU is marketed by Intel as having a 3.8 GHz base clock and 5.1 GHz boost clock value. The ‘all-core’ boost clock speed is rated for 4.7 GHz. The PL1 (Power Level 1) value of this CPU is 125Watts, and PL2 (Power Level 2) up to 229W.
This highest clocked pre-binned variant of the Core i7-10700K from Silicon Lottery runs at 5.1 GHz across all the eight cores with a 1.4V VCORE voltage value. And it carries a $559.99 price tag, which is up to $150 more expensive than the original street price. Other lower binned variants of the Core i7-10700K feature all-core boost clock speeds of up to 4.9 GHz and 5.0 GHz, and they each cost $429.99 and $469.99, respectively.
Silicon Lottery usually sticks with an AVX offset value of 1 which subtracts 100 MHz from the advertised clock speeds when the CPU is engaged in AVX workloads, for these binned parts. For the Asus ROG Maximus XII series of motherboards (Apex, Extreme, Formula, Hero), a Load-Line Calibration (LLC) value of 3 is specified by the company, whereas for Z490 motherboards from other brands, Silicon Lottery recommends a value of 4.
Silicon Lottery is offering a delidded Comet Lake-S chip here, which can help reduce the operating temperature anywhere from 5 degrees to 15 degrees Celsius, when the processor is under heavy stress and workload. The CPU is having a MSRP of $374 – $387 for the stock Core i7-10700K variant, though it has been selling for as high as $409.99 on some retail outlets, and etailers.
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Nice overclock.
The price for the regular i7-10700K seems to be all over the place right now.
Newegg lists it at $410 and a limit of 2.
Amazon doesn’t list a price right now but the sellers that sell through Amazon are listing it around $700.
700 USD ? That’s an insane value !
I agree. With the price gouging from Amazon sellers I’m wondering if they are anticipating shortages of the 10700k.
Ebay lists them new at $410 up to $550.
Then I suppose $559 is a pretty tempting offer for most of the overclockers, given the high ‘all-core’ Clock speed of 5.1 Ghz !! .
Then I suppose $559 is a pretty tempting offer for msot of the overclockers, given the high all-core Clock speed of 5.1 Ghz !! .
It’s sad. By now I would of thought we’d be at 10GHz. There isn’t no substitute for speed in many cases.
I doubt we will see an 8C16T CPU at 10 GHz on silicon. New materials to
replace silicon are being researched. I think there will be a
breakthrough but it’s anybody’s guess when that will be.
10Ghz is not possible.
not on silicon, maybe graphene
I doubt we will see an 8C16T CPU 10 GHz on silicon.New materials to replace silicon are being researched. I think there will be a breakthrough but it’s anybody’s guess when that will be.
5.1 ghz is pretty impressive !! Well done SL.
This kind of high overclock can’t be done on any normal CPU cooler by the user though.
I think you would need a quality water cooler. I would go with a 2 fan 240 mm radiator cooler.
Indeed. I would settle for an LN2 setup though, assuming I can handle one.
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I know you are kidding about an LN2 cooler but it got me curious how much does LN2 cost. I was expecting it to be really expensive but as it turns out it cost about the same as bottled water liter for liter.
I’m also not fully sure, but it is not THAT expensive imo.
Yes, I think so
Yes. We need either a closed loop LIQUID cooler, or in some extreme cases even Liquid Nitrogen/LN2 !
all i7-10700k can hit 5.1ghz easily, thats pretty lacluster, at that price you can get i9-10900k
Hey, do you think any Game is going to really benefit from this 5.1Ghz All-core boost clock value ?
IF yes, then what all Game titles ? I’m just curious to know. As far as I’m concerned not may games are going to benefit from an all-core boost clock value…
Makes sense. We need a very high-end GPU as well. And yes, Intel CPUs usually take the lead in gaming though, lol.