Gadgetory

do you remember the last time you used a cookie cutter to make treats for your weekly tech wiki viewing party well even if that was for a different occasion odds are that your cookies came out looking slightly different no matter how identical you tried to make them this is the same concept behind binning a term used by the manufacturing industry to sort things like for instance processors and memory modules by quality once they're manufactured you see although manufacturing processes for computer chips are extremely precise there's going to be some variation between them due to the intricacies involved in fabricating such tiny complicated components for example a CPU with a certain microarchitecture which you can learn more about in this video up here will have targets for performance power management and thermal output all set by the manufacturer if a certain sample hits these targets it will be bend at a higher quality and end up being sold as a higher end product but if it falls short it will end up being a more value oriented product multi-core CPUs illustrate this very well let's say you have a core i3 from Intel sitting in your rig right now although it's a dual-core processor the actual die might have actually been four cores if a chip has a core that isn't up to par but has others that function as intended the defective cores can be disabled and the chip says sold at a lower tier so that I three in your machine could have actually been an i5 but some small thing went wrong in the factory on the other hand the highest bin consumer-grade Intel CPUs often become the unlocked K series chips marketed to overclockers as these are typically the ones that perform the best without having to crank the voltage way high or putting out an insane amount of heat even so due to the minut differences between individual processors overclocking results will vary between even favorably Bindo unlocked chips the so-called silicon lottery you hear enthusiasts talking about the same concept also appears in graphics cards as well often times when there's a new GPU release that isn't something on the extremely high end you'll see a review that says it has the same GPU as a more expensive model but with X number of compute units disabled this is often due to bidding where a GP you might have a block of compute units that don't make the cut quality wise so they're disabled instead and sold as a say gtx 950 instead of 960 so hold on a second you're telling me that i could turn on extra cores it might be hiding on my CPU or GPU and get some free performance if i slap on a better cooler or something right unfortunately no that party has kind of ended years ago it was more commonly possible on certain products through some BIOS trickery or maybe a firmware update here or there but these days most major manufacturers physically disabled the connections between inactive cores and the rest of the processing unit so they can't be used at all by consumers but even so don't feel bad if you bought a lower bend chip just remember that you saved an innocent CPU from being melted down for gold and silicon and didn't even have to make a monthly donation because you saw a depressing TV commercial Tunnel buy or VPN lets you connect to 20 different countries allowing you to browse the internet and use online services as if you're in said different country they have an easy-to-use app for iOS Android PC and Mac and they even have a Chrome extension if you just want to have like one thing going in that country not everything just choose a country in the app turn tunnel bear on and watch as your bear tunnels your internet connection to a new location when you turn tunnel bear on two things happen your connection gets encrypted with AES 256-bit which is awesome and your public IP address gets switched so you can show up as if you're in a different country like I just said you can try out tunnel Bayer VPN with five hundred megabytes of free data with no credit card required if you want to upgrade to unlimited data you can save 10% by going to tunnel bear comm slash Linus if you liked the video like it if you dislike the video dislike it comment down below if there's like stuff you want us to cover someone released a really good comment recently that had like four different things that we haven't covered yet that we're great ideas we're probably going to do those don't forget to subscribe and check out our super fun we do like weird stuff this probably sounds horrible in the mic and there's like things bouncing off of me and it's bad but if you did like that sound you should go there don't know how that works go there anyways