Yes, but they are engie samples for a reason. It would probably be unstable, or not if you are lucky. I wouldn't recommend using a sample anyways, OC'ed or not

>>54308265
>>54308237
Gtfo amdfags

>>54308333
AMD fag? I'm just advocating for engie samples. Intel or AMD they are samples for a reason

Yeah, maybe theyll even oc higher since those are usually the ones sent to the youtubers and reviewers

They're mostly the same as final products but they might have hardware bugs and might not be recognized by your mobo and/or OS. If any of those things happen then the chip will just be unstable as fuck.

ES'es are leakier, leakier chips consume more power but overclock better.

>>54308265
>Yes, but they are engie samples for a reason
The reason being that they're engineering samples.

>It would probably be unstable
No.

>I wouldn't recommend using a sample anyways
Dumbass.

>>54308333
Kill yourself.

They're made many months before retail SKUs and thus have a notably bigger voltage headroom.
You won't find better OCers, outside of maybe 3 in a few thousand wafer golden samples, which are just outliers used in competitions.

If it's the same stepping as what went to retail you'll be fine for sure.

>>54310835
This is not necessarily true; only if you have enthusiast-grade cooling. Less leaky chips OC better when you're constrained by temperature.

>>54311145
There are ways to cool them even without liquid helium, they simply overclock better because they can take more voltage.

>>54311183
Voltage usually isn't what's limiting your overclocks with air cooling though, and less leaky chips can accomplish more with what little headroom you have there.

>>54311221
I didn't recommend high leakage chips for air cooling, if you got a good water cooling setup then go for it, but low leakage chips will do you better on air cooling since air doesn't allow you to go too crazy anyway.