Why don't you buy engineering sample CPUs? They're

They're technically not legal to sell. I think Intel and AMD don't really care that some people might come across them but they really don't like when they're resold because they're usually not complete and may contain hardware bugs and they may not be recognized properly by your OS which could lead to hardware functions not working. The main concern is resellers who try to pass them off as legit products.

They don't receive microcode updates, so you're running the risk of literal catastrophic failure while doing something important.

>>56975880

You mean the microcode updates that turn off overclocking features and make changes at a level the user cant see or have a say in?

I run 2 xeon ES/QS processors in my daily as long as your not buying the cheapest chink ones on eBay that are physically beat up your fine.

Because I haven't bought a CPU in years. I just buy used Opterons

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>>56975745
Using a Xeon 2670 v3 i ES i got for $300 last year. It was a $2400 CPU at the time.
Only difference was it is clocked 100mhz slower than reference which i was able to compensate for with a small BLCK overclock.

>>56976975
More like microcode updates that ensure computational accuracy, but I guess you wouldn't know anything about that since you only use your computer as a hobby machine.

>>56977631
>implying it needs computational corrections in the first place
>projecting this hard