Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz 8 MB LGA1366 CPU BX80601920 Reviews
Helpful Review: This thing is a monster, if you know how to trigger it. Spend $ 45 cooler for a third, and push this thing lead to surprising results. I'm not a player, I am with the 920 workstations in an environment with frequent heavy load. With a Xigmatek Dark Knight and a decent case, I could easily overclock to 4GHz this (that I was ready to go). With Hyper-Threading, which may be as many graphics programs simultaneously, in particular through the parallel use of Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects,Bridge, iTunes and Firefox. Do not jump out of rhythm.
I want to warn you, if you plan to use the 920 will be at its full potential, these things run hotter than most previous Intel chips. At 4GHz, 70 + C is burning at full normal () on air foreigners. Realistically, the real world rarely use pushing 100% for a long time, and allows speeds of pace can help to lower temperatures to a minimum. Well, I do not gimp your system with crappy RAM. You need something that is stable1600 MHz, without ridiculous amounts vDIMM. Do your homework and know what goes with that. It saves a lot of headaches.
All in all, this is a great chip, which will take me quite a long time. Read more helpful reviews
Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz 8 MB LGA1366 CPU BX80601920 Special Features:
- Intel Core i7-920
- 4.8 Intel QuickPath Interconnect
- 3 Channel Memory
- 8MB L3 Cache
- LGA-1366 package
Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz 8 MB LGA1366 CPU BX80601920 Overviews:
Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz 8MB LGA1366 CPU
Customer Reviews
oc’d to 3.6 ghz .. – P. Chong – West
with the Cooler Master V8. Going very fast and easy to overclock, you save a lot of money.
Best cpu for the price… period – B. West – Alaska
This is the best CPU for the price on the market. There's nothing wrong, except that you need to upgrade your motherboard to support DDR3. And even that does not overshadow the benefits of such an amazing CPU.
The Core i7 920 Is the Bottom of the Barrel These Days – S. Showalter – Ohio, USA
The typical user of all days is not very low in the 920 pages of advertising, but if you're trying to overclock with this chip, no! At least you should go a step out of the 920 and take this beauty (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002A6G3V2?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8). What many do not know is that all the 900 series chips from the same wafer. The bin used above 920 years, but now they are usually the lower quality and more performance chips in the series.
<br/> Contrary to popular belief, the output of the CPU chip very imprecise art and perfection of production can not be found in this area. The same series of chips, in this case, the i7-900 series are all made from the same wafer. If you do not receive the title and the extremely specifications based on tests completed after the individual chips to the production process is done. But not every chip is tested for a certain group of the series (eg 975).
Like anyCompanies, Intel has production quotas, so that a number are prepared, each chip in a range more each month, but beyond that are not in the most difficult tests that are involved in chip quality. So in reality, we are taking what is technically better than the 920 in 920-mix, all quotas were met for all the over 920 chips in that particular month of manufacture. The same goes for the chip and other colleagues better. The main reason is becausedemand more on 950s and 975s, which means that the end is more or less the luck of the draw.
But while you could theoretically buy 920 and actually ends with a perfect chip, the quality of a 950, chances are, the more likely that a 975 could get out of the 950 lots, since both the 950s and 975s would be coming from As the same area on wafer (the area is the area which is always) the best chips, while the 920s come from adefinitely known lesser quality of the surface of the wafer.
So if you're picky and you have absolutely top-of-the-line machines, go with a 950 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002A6G3V2?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8) and take the probability of something good. I have many of the 900 series chips, benchmarking, including the 975, 965, 950 and 920 overclocked, ran the 975 only 1.8% faster than the OC'd 950, but 950 is still running OC'd more extreme "" 965 The course OC'd 920dragged the other behind the 950 by about 10%. In the end I was certainly pleased with the results of 950 for the price compared to others.
For those on the fence with the price / performance, sure that will not be satisfied with 950 Unless you're a power user, however, it would be ok with the 920 … just know that there is the aging time. The 920, you could modify hungry again sooner rather than later, as the technology and advances. Ofcourse with the money they were able to save, always go for a super-fast solid-state disk (SSD), if they have not reached it already. That's where the real bottleneck in processing power these days is, and should never be run like a top-of-the-line system without high-speed hard disk!
For those who are curious, after several comparative analysis of the 900 series, that's what I decided on the basis of the final configuration of my computer:
Mobo:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KA9PZK?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8
CPU: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002A6G3V2?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8
Memory: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VNLDN8?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8
Hard Drive (SSD): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002IGT7IU?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8
PSU: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M3G42W?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8




