[rickss69]

Originally Posted by 3oh6

"handed" and "hand picked" don't go in the same sentence together. there is no such thing as being handed hand picked CPU's...except in the uber rare instaces of a couple Intel and AMD CPU's...but that is not what i am talking about. it is possible we will be binning CPU's for members who need them...but that process is far from simple or easy in anyway, and certainly won't be leakage screened CPU's from Intel, only one or two people in the world have ever gotten those, and Vince or anyone on our team certainly isn't one of them. i don't think i even want to explain what Andre does when he buys a stack of CPU's...definitely no lack of time consumption and headaches there. and they are all random retail samples.

this term of hand picked is pretty false in your mind. yes, some guys use hand picked hardware, but hand picked != binned and handed to them by a manu. manufacturers wouldn't know how to bin a GPU for cold if their life depended on it. hand picked means buying/receiving multiple pieces and binning yourself. again, not cheap, easy, or simple by any stretch of the imagination. even if you are sponsored and receive the hardware, the time and LN2, mods, etc... involved are a heavy cost

it is sometimes upsetting to see comments like this because of a lack of knowledge of how people really do things. i know it isn't your fault you don't actually understand what goes on behind the scenes of a top bencher, but i would still prefer you didn't make statements based on speculation from that lack of knowledge of what is really happening. starts rumors that aren't true, provides a false sense of knowledge, and makes you look bad to those that do know what is going on.

i am not trying to piss on someones corn flakes here, just provide info where there is clearly a lack of accurate information leading to skewed views on certain subjects.

Looks like piss on corn flakes to me...