A great example of “just because you can, you shouldn’t” you can currently buy what looks like the original engineering sample of the upcoming Ryzen 5 7600X. There’s absolutely no good reason to do that, considering it’s scheduled to be released in a little over a month at a low price point.
video cards (opens in new tab) Found some different card samples goofish on alibaba (opens in new tab) And the latest discovery is this sample that claims to be the Ryzen 5 7600X. The listing mentions a clock speed of 4.4 GHz for this chip. Expect poor performance and possibly a ton of bugs on this kind of sample device.
This chip could be a nice grab for a collector or someone looking to do some very specific overlock experimentation, but other than that it’s hard to find a good use case for something like this. That’s why sellers set tentative prices and require everyone considering a purchase to contact them.
It might be a red flag for some, but it’s probably a good move if you’re selling something like this. It’s easy to imagine what people are thinking. However, this sample is likely being sold illegally without AMD’s knowledge, so be sure to keep an eye on these red flags.
Besides being a potentially buggy card with a dangerous past, this CPU is currently basically unusable. Motherboards that support this socket size aren’t really available yet, but we’ve seen them shown off recently. (opens in new tab)Even if you were able to use one of these early sample releases, you would have to wait until a production model was available before getting hardware to work with it.
What I’m trying to say is that there is absolutely no reason to buy this chip. none. If so please let me know how it goes.
Still, seeing this kind of listing on the online marketplace is generally a pretty good sign before a product launches. (opens in new tab) before the launch of Zen 4 next month.
