Silicon Lottery Closing after Seven Years Due to Dwindling Overclocking Headroom in CPUs, Supply Issues

[Tsing]

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Silicon Lottery, the specialty retailer that’s best known for selling pre-binned processors guaranteed to run stable at higher clock speeds, is closing next month after seven years of business. As noted in a post shared on its front page, Silicon Lottery has decided to close up shop for a number of reasons that include the dwindling amount of overclocking headroom in modern CPUs and challenges such as supply issues. Silicon Lottery’s last day of operation will be October 31.



Per Silicon Lottery:



We’re shutting down not for just one reason, but for a combination of many. As you may be aware, overclocking headroom has been dwindling these past several years with manufacturers offering higher frequencies at stock, better boosting algorithms, and tighter bins between models which reduces overclock frequency variation (the 11900K is...

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[Brian_B]

Surprised it's lasted this long to be honest

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Surprised it's lasted this long to be honest

Me too. Niche within a niche and a bit pricey to boot. I thought it was neat but never worth the money I didn't have to begin with. Even still, I'm sad they're going under. Never really like to see a business fail these days and too many have and we've a ways to go before we clear these storms.