Sucka
Obviously there is some human interaction involved in this, how does that aspect work? Do they have like 100 dudes chillin in an office just poping RAM in and out? I will gladly test OCZ products from home if i can keep some
I don't know about human interaction dude, I'm pretty sure that because of the scale of testing involved, speed binning is probably automated
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Remember that our GPUs, GDDR ICs, CPUs, and DDR ICs that are speed binned, are speed binned before they are manufactured into an end product.
Something like a GPU (Lets use the example of the X850 Pro, X850 XT, and X850 XTPE, all three of which use the R480 core) needs to be tested for functional pipelines, and the ability to run given clockspeeds at a given temperature, with a given voltage, for a given amount of time.
The tightest speed binned R480 core meets the X850 XTPE standard, and makes it into the 16 pipe X850 XTPE. The next tightest speed bin meets the X850 XT standard, and makes it into the 16 pipe X850 XT. The cores that fail pipeline testing but that met the X850 Pro standard make it into the 12 pipe X850 Pro.
Since the testing occurs before the cards are actually manufactured, I would assume some sort of machine is involved (The idea of a GPU/CPU GDDR/DDR IC testing machine is pretty cool, you could set the bin to whatever standard you wanted, and make an uber stick of RAM, or an uber graphics card!)
I'm pretty sure that OCZ for example hand-tests each of their sticks before selling them though.
It's not a job I'd want - you'd be throwing out all kinds of (perhaps redeemable) hardware that didn't meet standard. Personally, that would drive me insane
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