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i7 920...who is still enjoying its awesomeness

i7 920 70-80
mobo 40-50
ram 20-30

Maybe a few months ago mate, theyre going for much less now.Seen 6gb of very high end corsair dominator go for a tenner the other day. My second system was built from a board costing 50 quid and cpu at 80 iirc, but that was ages ago. Already had 6gb of ocz reaper. Either the 920 or the 2500k will make a decent budget upgrade, but for me the 920 just edges it due to it's better multi gpu support and it's extra threads. Not all games currently use ht, but it's a useful feature to have for other tasks to. Hence as soon as i can afford it ill be ditching the 3570k in sig, bit dissapointed with it tbh. Runs too hot due to intel cheaping out and using garbage thermal paste instead of solder between the cores and ihs.
 
My i7 920 died a few weeks ago sadly :( made me cry. Darn what a reliable chip that was. Well Im pretty sure its dead. Tried it in 2 different motherboards and one was brand new and no dice. everything else is now running my new board and CPU.. Havent thrown it out yet.. If I cant get it to breath again I will most likely incase it in glass and show it off. Best money Ive ever spent.
 
Phixsator said:
My i7 920 died a few weeks ago sadly :( made me cry. Darn what a reliable chip that was. Well Im pretty sure its dead. Tried it in 2 different motherboards and one was brand new and no dice. everything else is now running my new board and CPU.. Havent thrown it out yet.. If I cant get it to breath again I will most likely incase it in glass and show it off. Best money Ive ever spent.
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Can I ask how it died? You didn't feed it too many volts or something? I only ask because a CPU just diying randomly is highly unlikely!
 
Alkalinepro5 said:
Can I ask how it died? You didn't feed it too many volts or something? I only ask because a CPU just diying randomly is highly unlikely!
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its been with me for 4 years. Bought it very early 2009, if I recall correctly jan or feb. Never gave it more than 1,375 and that was only for benching. When it gave out it was running at 1,05 volts on my brand new sabertooth x58 mobo @ stock speeds. Always had temps below 70 when stress testing, and usually 62ish when gaming BF3 and similar.
 
setter said:
i7 920 70-80
mobo 40-50
ram 20-30

Maybe a few months ago mate, theyre going for much less now.Seen 6gb of very high end corsair dominator go for a tenner the other day. My second system was built from a board costing 50 quid and cpu at 80 iirc, but that was ages ago. Already had 6gb of ocz reaper. Either the 920 or the 2500k will make a decent budget upgrade, but for me the 920 just edges it due to it's better multi gpu support and it's extra threads. Not all games currently use ht, but it's a useful feature to have for other tasks to. Hence as soon as i can afford it ill be ditching the 3570k in sig, bit dissapointed with it tbh. Runs too hot due to intel cheaping out and using garbage thermal paste instead of solder between the cores and ihs.
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think you just are the unluckiest person ever in pcs setter :D i do admire your perseverance though :p
 
Lol, ill probably get a secondhand de lidded 3770k, though it's a pretty poor show from intel when the customer has to finish the product to a better standard than they did. Otherwise ill make the move to haswell.
 
What I still love about the i7 9x0 series is the clock for clock speed performance and that you could easily put on a 40% overclock and it just took like without complaining. The 2nd and 3rd gen I7s cant do that and I would argue that cfc performance hasn't really improved much to be worthy of an upgrade..
 
Still using my i7 930 @4GHZ for three eyars now and still runs everything fine. May upgrade to Haswell depending on performance.
 
great thread, had my 960 for a couple of years now and love it.

although when my asus mobo died and swapped to the g1 sniper mobo I lost the 4ghz overclock I managed to get it upto.

However I cannot for the life of me get any oc to hold... anyone got this combo could give me some tips please? I am not an experienced overclocker by any means!
 
Currently using a 990x es. Annoyingly it makes horizontal banding lines in the image when rendering lighting effects in photoshop, no idea why and no other 9xx does it with same setup. For the gaming i do the 920, 930 and 950 were every bit as good when using them. Especially considering the price you can now get them second hand.
 
Still running my 920 here as well

Purchased in May 09 to replace a QX9650, which I actually sold for more money than my 920 cost :)

Combined at the min with a 120GB SSD, 12GB of HyperX and GTX480, it's more than adequate for my needs

Battlefield 4 will be the deciding factor on what I do, probably just a new graphics card :)
 
I've not felt the need to upgrade yet ether. It'd be nice but the gains are not it's not like the holy s*** moment we had when the Athlon 64's or core2duo's came out.
 
Another 930 user here.... i have it sat at 3.8ghz and it runs everything i throw at it.

Im upgrading my gfx from a gtx460 though as its getting a bit creaky now :p
 
Hi dg, l do note what you are saying, but my answers were to the quotes, 920 will last more than another 2 years, once you start overclocking your not very eco friendly whether it be the 920 or 2500k.

If peeps are that worried over there Leccy bills there are better ways to save and lower your bills.

This is a overclocking forum we preach speed not very leccy friendly, if Green Peace found out we would be on there Hit List or peeps should join www.greenpeace.ecopc.uk.

Oldphart.;)
 
Another 930 user here running 4.2Ghz... so many graphic card changes but the same CPU and MB.......
Might change this year... but said that last year..
 
i7 920 @ 3.4Ghz paired with a 7970. Runs everything fine, no issues.

Mhz for Mhz it seems to keep up with the most recent incarnation of the i series CPU (or am I wrong?).
 
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