Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
It's not the normal testing procedure.You can't do it any other way but by hand(LN2 testing).Since it takes a lot of time,like it was posted in previous post by bldegle2,it's highly impractical.They might have done what you suggest for the "normal" chips they showed(air,phase,wc-but we know already most will do ~3.6-4Ghz on air).But for LN2,even testing 5 of them would be impractical(they do have regular jobs there after all ,the ones that have nothing to do with LN2 testing all day long ).
Yes testing all on LN2 would be stupid, but you just said what was my point. When the 30 cpus where binned better then the regualar stuff (lets say 4ghz at a given voltage of 1.4V)* the chances are a lot higher to get a 6ghz chip form this batch of 30 then form a batch of 1000 of regualr chips.

That was my point from the beginning. I dont doubt that 5 and even 6ghz chips make its way into the channle and to users that can put that potetntial to use.

From my view point amd suggested with that demo, that you can get 4ghz with pretty much every chip out there. Thats why i want results from retail chips form regular users. If it turns out to be true more power to them, else shame on them.

*note this numbers are all pure fiction