Quote Originally Posted by Linuxfan View Post
I want to borrow the three graphics cards and the ram for some testing.
What do you mean "top bin 980x"?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/249242-28-binning
The newly fabbed CPU is connected to a special "tester" machine (see: teradyne.com for one vendor). This machine controls all of the pins to the CPU, and specially-written test programs are played onto the pins (with expected results). The clock and voltage are increased until the point of failure, and this determines which bin it makes.