Intel quietly slips out Core i7-930, future for 920 uncertain

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Reducing bugs reduces the heat, reducing the heat increases overclocking ability. The original 920's (CO stepping) could only reach 4ghz at 1.4-1.5v core or higher the newer 920 with D0 stepping can reach 4ghz with a lower 1.25-1.3v depending on each persons CPU, allowing for expansion in the overclocking of the cpu or at very least increasing stability of the cpu. I owned both 920's as my first 920 (C0 stepping) burnt had problems and got replaced by a newer D0 stepping 920.

I'd imagine with release of the latest 930 it's ability to be overclocked will be even higher.
 
Apparently the new i7 930 actually has a multiplier of 21 instead of the 920's 20. I found after hitting 4.46ghz (turbo enabled) on my 920 that the motherboard can't handle the bclk much higher than 213 (without better cooling on the NB chip-set). So with the higher multiplier you should be able to increase the 930 to 4.66ghz(or 5%'ish) over a standard i7 920 without to much trouble from a standard x58 same motherboard(with extreme cooling only).

Also in this initial review of the i7 930 they were able to get to 4ghz with standard crappy intel cooler on the processor which is pretty insane. http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22622&page=1

I can't even imagine how high you could go with a decent cpu cooler the only limit to this processors speed when overclocking will be the x58 board you purchase to go with this monster.
Flip to page 8-9 of the link for overclocking review.
 
Even without considering clock speed the 930 is probably the better processor. It's more recent and there are probably some bug fixes.
 
The only reason I can see for the 930 is to revive the 920 sales through it, and of course I predict that 920 would be stopped,
 
Intel is doing great job on CPU market but theyr prices are sky high.Why need six core, eight core and no software is written to take advantage of multiple core? AMD doing balance betwen price and performance and if they keep going like that may force Intel to cut heavely on prices and this is good for customers:))
 
Intel just wants to update it's older products by replacing them with improved parts, which is always good for us. I would probably go with the i7 860, though, despite this new offering. Motherboards for socket 1366 are much more expensive.
 
I personally prefer the i7 8xx series over the 9xx ones. I feel like i would be paying more for nothing extra. Only those who use dual 5970 benefit from that platform. Waste of money in my opinion.
 
hello ...

i don't feel that it will be good for those already having the 920 to go for an upgrade, but to those builind a new system (like me) can be appealing. Now i need an eraser, for i already made my list...

see ya around

cheers!
 
I'll be slipping in a intel 6 core cpu in july probably. My 920 is doing well for now. I dont work on the computer so when I am on I want it to be snappy. i bet most of us spend 5% of our work time on the computer waiting for things to load. After a month that time is well time kept I think.
 
Given the minor differences from the 920 and 30 is this some kinda of upgrade is something wrong with the 920 why they MIGHT phase out? The Core i7-860... if you want to put it that way it offers a faster clock speed, has the same L3 cache a 35 TDP different and runs and a cheaper platform thats just less performance than the 930/20 if thats what you're looking for.
 
I would still take the The Core i7-860 over this. Seems like a much better deal with the cheaper supporting hardware.
 
Intel is just showing how competitive they are with fast pace of the technology. Most likely the difference between 920 and 930 are their price of course, their specifications and future plans.
 
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