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When is i7 930 and will it clock higer than 920?

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I know the last part of my question is a tad daft as no one knows yet.

I'm on the verge of buying a D0 920 used for 50 quid off retail and was wondering if this is a silly move?

Will there be a plethora of D0 920's in MM when the 930 hits?

What the main difference?

Stock speed?
 
doubt anyone will be selling 920's to buy 930's.

wish i would have got the i7 920 listed earlier from the guy in gateshead :(
im always to late when they come up in MM! i could have walked to the guys house and picked it up lol
 
i heard its gonna be 2.88GHz. and selling a 920 to get a 930 doesnt make sence unless ur filthy $$$. It's also be the same price as the current 920, and will be a 45nm part, not 32nm
 
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hey easy

heres the bit of info that i know

930 will probably have a 22X multi [including turbo] - good for clocking but most likely exactly the same as a D0 stepping 920

it will be similar to the following trend

Q6600>Q6700
Q9450>Q9550

put simply, it will be the same chip but with +1 on the multi, same TDP, same VID range, same top end clock limits too
no die shrinks no extra cache or anything

i have been advising the following:

if you need a 1366 chip now - buy a 920 D0
if you can wait a few months - buy a 930 D0

chances are the 930 will be released the same time as gulftown
thats what the intel roadmaps i have seen on the web suggest :)

the 940, 950 and 960 have all fallen into the same price bracket per 1k tray according to intels site
so by this assumption the 930 will be the same as a 920 price wise

i heard they were making it primarily an OEM part too but cant remember which site i saw that

hope this helps
 
Hinted at but not stated explicitly is that most people find the odd multipliers to be more stable with the x58 i7 range. As such x22 doesn't mean much, since its probably going to be much less stable than x21 or x23, leading to the 930 clocking exactly as well as the 920.

The appeal I can see to the 930 is the x21 multiplier without using turbo. I'd like this, but not enough to spend money on it.
 
JonJ678 said:
Hinted at but not stated explicitly is that most people find the odd multipliers to be more stable with the x58 i7 range. As such x22 doesn't mean much, since its probably going to be much less stable than x21 or x23, leading to the 930 clocking exactly as well as the 920.

The appeal I can see to the 930 is the x21 multiplier without using turbo. I'd like this, but not enough to spend money on it.
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As a rule the odd multis are much more stable than than the even's.
But, if you use an odd ram multi when the cpu is on an even multi, the cpu then becomes just as stable as it would on an odd multi.
I've tried this with both a 920 and my current 975 and it worked with both.
 
Do you mean odd uncore multiplier with even bsck multiplier? The only ram multipliers I've got available ate x6, x8, x10 etc.

Would make sense if so, at x6 ram I'm having the most success with x15 uncore.
 
JonJ678 said:
Do you mean odd uncore multiplier with even bsck multiplier? The only ram multipliers I've got available ate x6, x8, x10 etc.

Would make sense if so, at x6 ram I'm having the most success with x15 uncore.
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Yes, sorry my typo, i do mean odd uncore multi's.
 
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