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Author was given these parts for free. Basically worthless test. If he was given the funds to buy parts at random somewhere, it would be interesting.

But to get parts sent to you from Intel and then say "omg look how overclockable" is advertising at its finest and by finest I mean worst.

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It's inherently worthless because none of us are going to overclock our PCs and cool them with liquid nitrogen in daily use. It's a sport and top athletes routinely get their tools for free from manufacturers. In some cases they are custom built. An example where tools matter much more than the people using them: Formula 1' 1.6 liter engines are built, tested on a bench and only the best ones go into cars, 3 of them per car per year if nothing goes wrong. The author basically did that with CPUs.

According to this logic, life is meaningless

Try not to think about that too much. We’re all going to die, our planet will be consumed by our dying star and our galaxy will end up forever alone due to expansion of space. Life is an accident of chemistry, an inevitable outcome of an infinite universe.

Which is objectively true. What is your point?

Meaning is inherently subjective, so there is no point in the appeal to objectivity.

I'm not sure why the price matters. And reviewers don't tend to get golden samples in general; it's possible overclockers get some but I'd want to see evidence. Since they sent 14 this is probably legitimate.

It's not the Price that matters, it's the source. "Since they were sent 14 this is probably legitimate"??? Are you saying intel couldn't find 14 of the best of the best to send him? 2 they could pull off, but not 14?

If you're gonna go the effort of doing this I see no reason at all why playing the silicon lottery is a bad thing.

It's not a consumer test. Of course it's advertising

This is a top class race car competition, not a family van shoot out. Top 0.001% percentile. No compromises.

Overclockers buy (or receive) binned CPUs all the time. The cost of buying top of the lines CPUs in bulk for overclocking is simply not feasible.

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