do you remember the last time you used a cookie cutter to make treats for your
weekly techwiki viewing party well even if that was for a
different occasion odds are that your cookies came out looking slightly
different no matter how identical you tried to make them this is the same
concept behind binning a term used by the manufacturing industry to sort
things like for instance processors and memory modules by quality once they're
manufactured you see although manufacturing processes for computer
chips are extremely precise there's going to be some variation between them
due to the intricacies involved in fabricating such tiny complicated
components for example a CPU with a certain microarchitecture which you can
learn more about in this video up here will have targets for performance power
management and thermal output all set by the manufacturer if a certain sample
hits these targets it will be bined at a higher quality and end up being sold as
a higher-end product but if it falls short it will end up being a more value
oriented product multi-core CPUs illustrate this very well let's say you
have a core I3 from Intel sitting in your rig right now although it's a dual
core processor the actual die might have actually been four cores if a chip has a
core that isn't up to par but has others that function as intended the defective
cores can be disabled and the chips sold at a lower tier so that I3 in your
machine could have actually been an i5 but some small thing went wrong in the
factory on the other hand the highest bin consumer grade Intel CPUs often
become the unlocked K series chips marketed to overclockers as these are
typically the ones that perform the best without having to crank the voltage way
high or putting out an insane amount of heat even so due to the minute
differences between individual processors overclocking results will
vary between even favorably bended unlocked chips the so-called silicon
Lottery you hear Enthusiast talking about the same concept also appears in
graphics cards as well often times when there's a new GPU release that isn't
something on the extremely high end you'll see a review that says it has the
same GPU as a more expensive model but with X number of compute units disabled
this is often due to binning where a GPU might have a block of compute units that
don't make the cut quality-wise so they're disabled instead and sold as a
say GTX 950 instead of 960 so hold on a
second you're telling me that I can turn on extra cores that might be hiding on
my CPU or GPU and get some free performance if I slap on a better cooler
or something right unfortunately no that party has kind of ended years ago it was
more commonly possible on certain products through some BIOS trickery or
maybe a firmware update here or there but these days most major manufacturers
physically disable the connections between inactive cores and the rest of
the processing unit so they can't be used at all by consumers but even so
don't feel bad if you bought a lower Bend chip just remember remember that
you saved an innocent CPU from being melted down for gold and silicon and
didn't even have to make a monthly donation because you saw a depressing TV
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