i7 920...who is still enjoying its awesomeness

Skynet5 · 31 Mar 2013 at 11:31

I bought mine Easter 2009. 4 years on and I see no real need to upgrade.

I was tempted 1 year ago when I went 680 sli. I didn't see the cards pushed in BF3 and most peeps said it was my CPU. I held off anyway.

Then the last set of drivers released a week ago mentioned SLI improvements for BF3. This has taken the average utilisation from 68% in game to around 79%. And in some cases up to 99% which I never really saw before.

When will I upgrade? I get a feeling I might not even bother with Haswell..I think this thing is gonna have to die before I drag it out of my HAF-X.

Randomface74 · 31 Mar 2013 at 11:40

Recently overclocked mine a little and added an SSD.

I see no reason to upgrade, CPU usage is always very low.

I'm recently thinking about getting another 6GB RAM before it vanishes. And a GPU with more than 1GB of VRAM.

OLDPHART · 31 Mar 2013 at 11:42

The Exclusive i7 920 Gentlemen's Club

Well as the 920 is dying out on these forum's, l decided to start "The Exclusive i7 920 Gentlemen's Club" so if you own a i7 9x0[920,930, 980] CPU and intend to keep and run it sign up. So we can help and advice second hand i7 9x0 user's + old one's to get the best out of them.

As this was one of the best CPU's Intel have produced.There is no way l'm getting rid of my old faithfull 920:4.263ghz, as it still kick's butt with 12GB of ram, Sammy 830 SSD, Custom Cooling. This year l serviced my loop with new coolent[pre-mix] + tubing after 2 year's but also moved my 140mm internal rad to wear my 420mm rad both using low rpm fan's. The 420 was mounted on the rear of my case[FTO1] and it use to get all the heat from the bottom of the case from the PSU and the internal one was affected by the rise in heat as room temp's went up in the summer.

By doing this my core temps have droped by at least 6'c, with the central heating on at 23'c ambient room tempurature 54 to 58'c +/- 1'c and GPU never goe's over 50'c. So if you want to improve your temps mount one big rad externally for better cooling. installation and servicing, this is what l'm going to do on my next build.

LoL,l wonder how many i7 9X0 owner's we have left, so come on and sign up for this Exclusive i7 920 Gentlemen's Club.

Cheer's,

Oldphart.

OLDPHART · 31 Mar 2013 at 11:45

Guy's you can join my see below -

The Exclusive i7 920 Gentlemen's Club

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18501287

Oldphart.

smelly_legend · 31 Mar 2013 at 11:47

My pal bought a 920 from OCUK around about that time. He has no need to replace it at all.

old gamer · 31 Mar 2013 at 11:52

My upgtade itch became too much and i went from an i7 920 @3.8ghz to a 3770k, and if im being honest when gaming i cant even tell the difference, video encoding has improved a bit but was it worth what i spent proberly not

jamiehavok · 31 Mar 2013 at 12:30

i own an i7 920 don't plan on retiring it until haswell-e or broadwell as it still runs everything i throw at it, and probably will continue to until the next gen of consoles is well established!

jamiehavok · 31 Mar 2013 at 12:32

yep no reason to upgrade for gaming imo until at least broadwell or haswell-e

Glass · 31 Mar 2013 at 12:37

I used to be a regular on this forum, upgraded my system once a year, however since I purchased a 920 back in 2009 and added an SSD - I've not had to upgrade...that's like 4 years ago!

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 12:50

Have an i7 930 in my second pc. Spec in sig was a replacement for an i7 920, bit of a silly sidegrade tbh.

pooley · 31 Mar 2013 at 13:46

I'm still running a 930 atm, but probably will upgrade when haswell comes out. But even then it's not because i need too.

wazza300 · 31 Mar 2013 at 13:52

I think the 2600k/3770k will be future classic cpu's like the 920 d0 was

I sorely miss my 920

d_brennen · 31 Mar 2013 at 13:52

I've had several second hand chasing high clocks, bought and sold. Don't know why I didn't keep any of them. Excellent chips, really a statement of "good enough" that's killing the PC market

almoststew1990 · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:02

Feel left out with my paupers i7 860 3.8GHz. It can keep up still, I pwomise

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jamiehavok · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:04

aww shoulda merged te oter thread with the genrlemans club, not ghe other way around!

kayomani · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:04

Had to drop from 4.0 to 3.8 but yeah still awesome

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:06

Anyone looking for a cheap but very powerful upgrade from say c2d/q could do a lot worse than picking up one of theese chips + board and ram. Would make for a pretty decent gaming system. I used the gtx 670 in sig in both the 3570k and i7 920 setups. The 920 gave slightly better minimum fps in a few games i play.

OLDPHART · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:24

setter said:
Anyone looking for a cheap but very powerful upgrade from say c2d/q could do a lot worse than picking up one of theese chips + board and ram. Would make for a pretty decent gaming system. I used the gtx 670 in sig in both the 3570k and i7 920 setups. The 920 gave slightly better minimum fps in a few games i play.

Why has my thread been merged with this, it should be the other way round?

no reason why. :rolleyes:

OLDPHART · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:41

Dear Moderator's, could one of you's please kindly merge the threads the other way round.

As there still people asking for help when buying second hand, and would be for other's who still run one.

Thank you,
Oldphart.

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:44

Thats what id have thought too mate. :confused: