Cherry Chip Giveaway

[carpo93]

I am interested into the young kid who have fun with his hardware

here i'am

[s0lid]

here i'am

Me too if under 18 is counted "young"

[MACMAC]

Pat, the Atom 330 already has two dies...so 8 Atom 330s would have 16 dies

Even better!

But good catch

[massman]

I heard it is an LGA1366 Phenom i7 965!

What would the marketing slogan be?

"Next summer, re-introduction ... The Coldbug!"

[dduckquack]

I am interested into the young kids

[Mean Machine]

I suspect this has something to do with this thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=229185

There's a link to this thread in Simons link madness.

[BenchZowner]

@BenchZowner we are only a niche of the market and there are a lot of chips that go into everyday desktops and gaming systems that are built by OEM. My best Athlon XP that I ever owned came out of a damn HP laptop. And I worked with a guy who got an amazing A64 3500+ out of an Emachine desktop. I understand where your coming from and I know you were not trying to be offensive but when comments like that from people who have great overclocking skills is a put down to those who are trying to prove themselves and don't have the money or backing for the materials to do so.

Listen,

It looks like some people misunderstood what I said and didn't get the point I intended to pass.
What I meant was that if you don't have the money at the moment to buy the necessary equipment ( hardware & LN2 equipment ), experienced or not, it would be a waste, and when you eventually get the money to buy the equipment needed you'll more than likely be late to the party ( as in, the chip won't be anywhere near the top chips at the time given and even if you're a top notch overclocker & tweaker you'll be way off the top 50 because the others will have better & newer hardware ).
Another point is, if you're not experienced in LN2 OCing, or you never had any extreme overclocking experience, but you intend to "get in the game" there's a big chance of "burning" things down including the CPU in case something goes wrong insulation-wise, and believe it or not a lot of beginners had such accidents losing hardware, etc until they learned how to properly insulate their stuff on their own or guided by another more experienced extreme overclocker.
Let's ignore the "damaging" experience for a sec, and pretend that everything's gonna be ok, etc.
The "beginner Joe" will more than likely... NOT be able to squeeze out the best of the chip because ironically, he doesn't have the experience to do it.
I can give you for example a 6.5GHz E8600 and the rest of my hardware and equipment, and you ( not specifically you, generally speaking ) may get stuck even at under 6GHz.
In the beginning people make mistakes, try to learn new things, etc, there's no need for a super duper cherry-picked CPU, you may get a retail chip ( cheap or expensive doesn't matter ) and with some luck of draw it may be a crazy clocking chip, or an average clocker.Anyway, you'll be having fun and learning how to "properly" OC & bench with LN2, no matter if you're running a 6GHz E8600 or a 6.6GHz E8600 [ quite a lot E8600s nowadays hit over 6GHz ]
To compete at high levels you must master some stuff first, like Vmodding, temp control, BIOS tweaking, software & app tweaking, etc.
Benching isn't a plug 'n' play compatible hobby, you simply can't get into the top places of the "league" simply by running a cherry-picked CPU.

As for encouraging new & young people in getting into extreme overclocking, I can give you access to my inbox

Sorry if I offended you.

Friendly,
Bill

[mav2000]

Im throwing my hat in the ring, but like some others here, I bench only on air, cant afford anymore at least not right now.... cheers

[Pcuser]

I see where you coming from benchzownwer.It makes sense that people with high end gear have better chance of getting the most out of the cpu but im sure everyone will love a cherry chip I don't think anyone should feel offended though
I thought we have to compete so i checked if i have the right gear :
F1EE
Gigabyte board
Corsair ram
Cascade

Luck be with us all

[b1tterman]

how's it advancing?

[Russ_64]

I am sensing that the "annoucement" will be on the weekend sometime - probably Sunday night (when I am at 35000 feet over the atlantic.....)

[gillbot]

When it gets down to the high end overclocking a lot of us don't have the money to throw down on LN2 and hardware to become amazing overclockers.

+1, though i'm willing to wait and see what the competition is first. If it involves anything that would require purchasing a large amount of gear or other equipment, this isn;t much of a giveaway and more like a "trade" IMHO.

[carpo93]

Me too if under 18 is counted "young"

well in younger than you, i'm 15

[NBF]

well in younger than you, i'm 15

I've been 15 years old for the last 18 years
I guess Im a very experienced young kid

[carpo93]

I've been 15 years old for the last 18 years
I guess Im a very experienced young kid

[road-runner]

From reading the post in this thread seems most people think Charles should change the giveaway to young only, experienced only and must have a LN2 pot to win a chip he is giving away, what a shame, leaves it to the people who already get cherry chips, human greed...

[carpo93]

From reading the post in this thread seems most people think Charles should change the giveaway to young only, experienced only and must have a LN2 pot to win a chip he is giving away, what a shame, leaves it to the people who already get cherry chips, human greed...

well i'm young, and i've ln2 pot, but i never had a cherry chip

and charles didn's say that who hasn't got a cpu pot can partecipate

[biglipzit]

well i'm young, and i've ln2 pot, but i never had a cherry chip

and charles didn's say that who hasn't got a cpu pot can partecipate

I am with Carpo here! I got LN2 pot and I order LN2 and try my hardest to get frost bitten time and time again. I never had a cherry chip!

[fatguy1992]

well i'm young, and i've ln2 pot, but i never had a cherry chip

and charles didn's say that who hasn't got a cpu pot can partecipate

I'm young and i'v got phase change and access to LN2/Dice

[[XC] gomeler]

From reading the post in this thread seems most people think Charles should change the giveaway to young only, experienced only and must have a LN2 pot to win a chip he is giving away, what a shame, leaves it to the people who already get cherry chips, human greed...

It isn't greed.. it is knowing the potential that may be wreaked upon the Bot with a 5.5GHz Core i7 and how that would be wasted sitting in a machine running 4.2GHz 24/7. That all being said, I bet it is an AMD TWKR

[The Nemesis]

Though I would love to have a cherry chip I too see a chip that was binned with a purpose of being a 5.5Ghz beast going in a 4.2 Ghz 1.1v 24/7 rig as a waste. Perhaps thats best so not to place fear of "The Nemesis" into top 25 hwbot benchers. That said this thread is getting silly.

[massman]

It isn't greed.. it is knowing the potential that may be wreaked upon the Bot with a 5.5GHz Core i7 and how that would be wasted sitting in a machine running 4.2GHz 24/7. That all being said, I bet it is an AMD TWKR

This thread is pure awesomeness

[defect9]

I approve this thread

wait, I think I just figured it out. its a contest for cherry southbridge chips

[[XC] gomeler]

You know what would be awesome? A cherry Pentium 4. I've always wanted to see 10GHz

[Movieman]

You know what would be awesome? A cherry Pentium 4. I've always wanted to see 10GHz

I can get you a heck of a deal on a 2400 celly if you'd like?