i7 920...who is still enjoying its awesomeness

peahead · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:54

Keeping mine for as long as possible

dont game much anymore on pc so dont see the point in upgrading it anytime soon

OLDPHART · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:02

setter said:
Thats what id have thought too mate.

Cheer's and how's you m8.

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:07

OLDPHART said:
Cheer's and how's you m8.

Pretty good mate, have you had the 920 since release? Iirc i got mine a few months after release, it was a further 6 months before i tentatively tried clocking it. Dont know why i was so worried, probably the easiest chip ive ever had to clock. Gotta get round to reapplying the oc on the 930. It's a cracking little chip, 4.3ghz with a slight bit of tweaking. It uses the first 6gb kit of high end ocz reaper that was originally in my 920 setup.

Locke · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:14

I am also one of those that has a 920 still. Currently mine is at stock settings as I'm doing work.

I desperately need a new graphics card, it's the only thing that has been pushed by games and the like:

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:20

Any modern gpu such as 670/80, 7950/70 and your good to go.

Locke · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:26

setter said:
Any modern gpu such as 670/80, 7950/70 and your good to go.

Yeah, I was thinking a 660 or 670 at the end of April. I prefer Nvidia.

BF3 will be amazing then I bet!

siege2 · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:29

I have mine roughly the same time as OP, and went from gtx280 sli to 7970 crosfire, added 3 ssd's etc, due to limitations off 3gb instead off 6gbs, running at pci 2 instead off pci 3 etc,
I took the plunge and bought new MB, CPU, memory, CPU is now running at 4.75 ghz asus pro, and 2011 3.60 quad, about 1 ghz jump in speed, sata feels so much smoother etc, system boot up time is a lot faster.

This system should last me another 4 years now.

Kenneth

SeraphX · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:39

i7 920 here on a GA X58 UD5, Slight sidegrade from an i5 2500K

Currently running at 3.1Ghz with hyperthreading, 12Gb of DDR3 1600 running slightly over at 840Mhz

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:40

Locke said:
Yeah, I was thinking a 660 or 670 at the end of April. I prefer Nvidia.

BF3 will be amazing then I bet!

Bf3 will run extremely well, got a 670 wf here with a pretty meaty oc on it. Maxed bf3 out and it ran great in the 920 setup at 4.2ghz.

wazza300 · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:45

i managed to find my old cpu-z validation

I still got 3 kits of ocz reaper ram too,it was the Samsung green memory of the time

Wucked · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:50

Happy 920 owner reporting in. Easily the best value CPU I've had and still going strong.

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:51

wazza300 said:
i managed to find my old cpu-z validation

I still got 3 kits of ocz reaper ram too,it was the Samsung green memory of the time

Such a shame they stopped making ram. The reaper kits were outstanding, tbh theyve shown that theyre not very good at making ssd's, so perhaps they should have stuck to something they were good at.

wazza300 · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:52

yeah,they were great ram kits,would do 1800mhz all day long,which was high for x58

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 15:56

Had mine at 1800, 7-7-7-27 iirc, every system ive built until now had reapers in it. Only issue though was that they limited cpu cooler choice due to their massive size.

Skynet5 · 31 Mar 2013 at 16:32

Good to see so many fans, new and old.

I run mine at 4.11 w/o HT. it's the best I could get out of the stepping c0 on my p6t deluxe v2.

I started out with a 4870x2, then a 5970 and now a 680sli. It won't last another gfx update, but it is always smooth.

It'll be a sad day when she is replaced tbh. Maybe over summer...maybe.

Skynet5 · 31 Mar 2013 at 16:36

I see the other thread got merged. Sorry.
Can we rename this one?

Have they stopped making RAM for this config now?

Skynet5 · 31 Mar 2013 at 16:40

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

I think I remember you upgrading to see if you could get anything else out if your gfx on BF3.

setter · 31 Mar 2013 at 16:45

lnoton said:
I think I remember you upgrading to see if you could get anything else out if your gfx on BF3.

Yep, and tbh mate it was a very silly move. The 3570k does clock higher, temps are pretty much the same. But performance in bf3 has dropped a tiny amount. The main benefit of the 3570k is much lower power usage, and as i was running two clocked x58 setups, one had to go to cut down on electricity usage. Not massive drops im sure, but every little helps. I will be changing the 3570k though to a 3770k soon.

Schizo · 31 Mar 2013 at 17:08

Axil · 31 Mar 2013 at 17:26

Still running

i7 920 @ 3.8GHz on a GA X58 UD5 with 12GB

Chip has been rock solid @ 3.8 since I got is in 2009

Only irritiating thing is the motherboard absolutely stupid spacing of the pcie x 16 slots making SLI/Xfire just not an option regards cooling with dual slot cards