AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Sample Spotted on Chinese Gray Market
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Kaarme
It looks so scratched that I suspect the seller smuggled it out of his workplace inside a sack full of crushed stone.
Ivrogne
Or maybe the seller erase the serial number with sandpaper.
Horus-Anhur
Probably that sample has been installed in a number of motherboards for development and testing.
H83
It looks like it has been hit by an hammer several times to test it`s physical resistance...
I wouldn`t buy a CPU looking like that...
schmidtbag
Even if it was in pristine condition, I wouldn't buy it. Being an ES, it's bound to not be as refined/complete, it might not receive microcode updates, and it's stupidly expensive. If it (and more importantly, the motherboards) were released a year ago, I could maybe see some appeal, but when I could wait a few weeks to have a fresh new polished chip that will most likely perform better for $1200 USD less, buying this sample is just outright moronic.
JamesSneed
The only person that I see might buy it is a less than reputable review site. The ad revenue from posting an early review would probably cover it.
user1
Es cpus can be fun though, they often have unlocked multipliers and things like that(extended PBO limits anyone?), its more likely to be just be a boring sample however, aka a QS(qualifying sample) , basically preproduction retail.
tunejunky
this is at least 5 months old, and it's most likely older than that (earlier ES).
AMD has way fewer ES points than Intel because of chiplet design. and AMD keeps a far tighter security regime and distribution than Intel. Intel uses ES to juice the market as much as validate spec. they release more also because they need to validate the process (if not the node) at their foundries. so they end up with about 20% more ES than they need (as they have a smaller workforce than 2020) but they are a big company slow to change.
so imho, this is from the October 2021 ES point.
schmidtbag
If the final product lacks things like an unlocked multiplier and there will be no such variant with that then sure. But seeing as this is AMD and a CPU without V-cache, it's probably going to be unlocked anyway.
user1
for manual overclocking sure, pbo limits however are +200mhz on current chips, I see no reason that this would change.
Kool64
I'd love to have one as a collectors item type thing.
reix2x
you could make a bling bling with it.. it would be cool.
Kool64
Hmm I do have a spare 1600x lying around……
icedman
I just hope AMD keeps support on this socket like they did with am4 it's been amazing having all mine and my family members pc's on the same socket as everything is interchangeable and I've never felt bad about buying replacement CPU's as I know I can still get all the parts new if needed
