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i7 920...who is still enjoying its awesomeness

I am still using one at 3.8ghz currently as 4ghz needs fair bit more voltage plus my board doesn't seem to support 21x multi.Bit of a silly question but if i was to add 6gb more ram can i just slot it straight in like always or would i need to change my oc settings again?

Want a 2nd 680 but heard SLI 680s are bottlenecked somewhat on this cpu even when oced at 4ghz.
 
Still rocking a 920, bought an overclocked bundle from here in October '09 along with Windows 7.

Been perfectly solid since then, many times have i thought about upgrading, but this still does what i need. Probably see what Haswell turns out like, and maybe even add a Titan soon......
 
Adding another 6gb would probably need a boost in qpi dram voltage, think it's known as vtt on a gigabyte board.

Modern cards in sli/xfire would be bottlenecked with theese cpu's though, even the 3570k is a bottleneck. Ideally you need something like a well clocked 3770k with modern multiple gpu setups.
 
Sycho said:
I am still using one at 3.8ghz currently as 4ghz needs fair bit more voltage plus my board doesn't seem to support 21x multi.Bit of a silly question but if i was to add 6gb more ram can i just slot it straight in like always or would i need to change my oc settings again?

Want a 2nd 680 but heard SLI 680s are bottlenecked somewhat on this cpu even when oced at 4ghz.
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Do it.

I play farcry 3,crysis 2 (late to the party I know) & payne3 and they scale real well. 99% on each gpu. Therefore no bottleneck.

BF3 doesn't, but the latest drivers prove it isn't all cpu bottleneck and gave an extra 10% on each core. 79% now maybe more.
 
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I still have one on a UD5, but the trust is gone. I've been chasing phantom instabilities for over a year now - I suspect I've burned out part of the imc. The standard advice was keep qpi below 1.3V or so, and I ran mine at 1.5V and 100 degrees for a while under an essentially failed water cooling loop. So I think I've broken it.

Still, I'll stay with it until I can scrape together the funds to move to the big boys table. Xeon's, ECC and terrible bang for buck here I come!
 
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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
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The fact how old the 920 is, it's impressive the fact you've noticed very little difference.

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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:

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Is that the idle temperature, 45c? with speed step? the GTX 280 seems to be a little warmer than the Mac 6800 Ultra I once had.
 
Still running a 930 @ 4GHz with 12GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM and a GTX480 and really can not justify the cost in upgrading. I game at 1920x1080 and it runs pretty much everything maxed out. The Witcher 2 was a slight struggle so notched that down a smidge and not played anything really new for quite a while but overall very happy.

Stoner81.
 
950 @ 4.0 and still lovin it :D

Not upgrading till there is an i7 chip that can easily do a stable 5.0Ghz or slightly over without the need for liquid nitrogen cooling or worrying that the oc will burn out the cpu
 
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JonJ678 said:
I still have one on a UD5, but the trust is gone. I've been chasing phantom instabilities for over a year now - I suspect I've burned out part of the imc. The standard advice was keep qpi below 1.3V or so, and I ran mine at 1.5V and 100 degrees for a while under an essentially failed water cooling loop. So I think I've broken it.

Still, I'll stay with it until I can scrape together the funds to move to the big boys table. Xeon's, ECC and terrible bang for buck here I come!
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Same happened to mine on a ud5 after running at 1.42v. Eventually had to upgrade
 
Back then was on an E8400 at 4GHz and came very close to upgrading to a 920, but I waited and got my i5 750 the next year instead, still at 3.8GHz. Does the job pretty well, but I do want to upgrade in the next year or two...to another quad it seems :rolleyes: want an affordable hexacore!
 
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On a 960 here (which not many people seem to have) @ 4.2ghz - will be upgrading to Haswell though In the summer when I build my new system.
 
Still got my I7 920 overclocked it to 3.6ghz duno if I can go higher maybe. Using this with GTX680 Lightning runs good on prity much everything except low frame rate on Arma 3 with everything on ultra but that is expected.

Admit have been thinking about upgrading to an Ivybridge but not sure what difference it will make since I dont like to overclock too much.

Plan to run this with Rome2 when that comes out ;)
 
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