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Turbo's Guide to Binning and Overclocking [as of v.0.9.3.4]

By Turbo

So, I've seen a ton of comments on here and on Discord wondering just how in the world some of us are pulling off 3DMark scores in the 25,500+ range. Well, I'm here to answer that question for you. This is going to be a four part guide on how to bin parts to find the best possible components that PCBS's Silicon Lottery can provide and then how to best overclock those components to get the best possible 3DMark score those components are capable of.

I've split this up into four different videos. They're not exactly short, as there is a lot of information to give you.

Alright folks, this guide is now complete! I'll do my best to keep this guide as up to date as possible as the game evolves. We've got the Career refresh coming up shortly and I'm hoping they aren't going to throw in any massive changes to how overclocking works in that as it would require a complete redo of this guide. Regardless, I'll at least be adding a new video or two when RTX finally hits. I hope you learned something and enjoyed it. Happy PC building!

!!!UPDATE!!! (Dec. 3, 2018)
The career refresh has finally hit! Looks like there are no changes made to overclocking mechanics so this guide is still up to date.

!!!UPDATE!!! (Dec. 27, 2018)
We've got some new parts, CWC got a bit of a tweak, and the devs removed the ability to use an active CPU cooler with a pump/res in the DG-87 and 86. All of the binning methodology stays the same though. Please see part 5 for more details!

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Guide Index

Overview

Part 1: Creating a Binning Database

Part 2: Final Binning for CPU and GPUs

Part 3: RAM Binning

Part 4: Overclocking

Part 5: Updates for PCBS v0.9.3.4

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Part 1: Creating a Binning Database

This first video is on creating a database of binned parts so we have some kind of reference data we can use to compare the parts we're testing to. This video is technically just for educational purposes as I'm going to share my databases on this guide so you can use them instead of spending hours creating your own. Still, if you'd like to have your own databases, or you want to test different components and/or cases, this video will teach you how and you can apply this knowledge to your setup.

Without further ado, here is the first video:

Also, here are the databases that I created. These are for the Intel Core i9-7980XE and the watercooled 1080 Ti. Keep in mind that the numbers refelcted here are only applicable using the specific test bench criteria I've laid out. If you use a higher power GPU during the CPU tests or a higher power CPU during the GPU tests, your numbers will change.

I'll upload the next three videos over the next few days and will post their links in the comments below. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask. Also, I apologize that I say "umm" so much. It's a habit I've never been able to break.

Part 2: Final Binning for CPU and GPUs

Part two is up! In this video I go over final binning for CPU and GPU using the data we found in the first video.

Part 3: RAM Binning

Part three is up! In this video I go over the process for finding the best possible RAM in the game.

A quick update! I'd like to give a shout out to ToTh3 for realizing that we can get away with running only three rads with the best GPUs in the game. This means we can replace one with a fan and push the CPU even harder. This also means that the best usable RAM speed is now 6048 MHz instead of the 6030 MHz I mention in the video! You can quick bin for this speed at 144 MHz bus.

Part 4: Overclocking

Alright! Finally to the good stuff! Ready to learn how to push overclocks to the ragged edge in PCBS? Well, let's get to it!

Part 5: Updates for PCBS v0.9.3.4

Okay, so there's a few changes to make here:

We can no longer use active CPU coolers with a pump/res in any case.
Luckily, CWC got a bump so we can now get away with running a full CWC loop.
G.SKILL RAM added!!! Trident Z 4800 MHz is the new RAM king!

I'll be adding a short vid covering these changes shortly, for now, here is the new best parts list and best possible bin values as well as a shot of how the build looks with the new changes:

39 Comments

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BSODBIOS 22 Mar @ 10:16am

Very cool and interesting guide.

void reality 3 May, 2023 @ 10:58am

i pulled 25570 out of two 3090's and 11900k

bblewittAG 9 Aug, 2020 @ 5:57am

Is it just me being really unlucky or is 1.75 volts is killing the CPU?
I did 2 tests and wrote them down fine with no issues then on the 3rd and 5th till 9th got no CPU found on free build.

natcha12 [UK] 8 Aug, 2020 @ 8:40am

Haha. 400W at idle. Totally craps on my 1080/6700 stock that sits around 120 xD

Mabel 13 Apr, 2020 @ 2:53pm

Nameless Being this is a game, if you did it to your irl motherboard that's on you

Biervampir [AUT] 8 Apr, 2020 @ 7:26am

qNameless Being
I hope you didn't tried it on your RL MoBo.

Nameless 26 Mar, 2020 @ 6:38pm

I just fried my motherboard thanks to you...

🖤omegamäään Ω 22 Sep, 2019 @ 10:22am

which MoBo do you use in current version ?

TriggeredTrigz 22 Aug, 2019 @ 10:11am

what case is that??

Virussssy 14 Mar, 2019 @ 10:57am

After todays update I just noticed that you can put CPU voltage up to 2.5. Do you think they are changing the volts cpu's can handle and are you going to do a updated guide for the 2080 ti WC?

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