Technical Details
- Intel Core i7-920
- 3 Channel Memory
- 8MB L3 Cache
- LGA-1366 package
Technical Details
- Process Type: Intel Core i7 Processor i7-930
- Frequency: 2.80 GHz
- Bus Speed: 4.8 GT/s
- Cache: 8 MB
- Process: 45 nm
Technical Details
- 3.33GHz Clock Speed Intel Turbo Boost speed up to 3.6GHz
- 6 cores 12 threads with Intel Hyper-Threading
- Socket LGA1366 compatible with Intel DX58SO board
- Three channel DDR3 memory support
- 130 Watts TDP
Technical Details
- 3.2GHz Clock Speed Intel Turbo Boost speed up to 3.46GHz
- 4 cores 8 threads with Intel Hyper-Threading
- Socket LGA1366 compatible with Intel DX58SO board
- Three channel DDR3 memory support
- 130 Watts TDP
Now these are heavyweight flagship processor from Intel. Before go for shopping these processor I would like to advice you to consider some fact. Like the advantage these processor offering you or really you need these processor or not. First consider the technical facts. The technical data states that you could overclock Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition and Intel Core i7 960 and from the various forum I read that you also could overclock other two processor as well with the help of a high quality motherboard and adequate power supply. These all processor has hyper threading ability and all of them support ddr3 ram. And last of all theses beast are real power hungry. So you need to make sure they get the power that properly. Otherwise frequent shutdown or hang could occur.
Now I would like to discuss to whom these processor is necessary. from my observation if you need a gaming pc or your work on heavy multimedia then you will find the fun of work from these processors. But if you think on short term means you are buying pc for one year time(the way computing powers increases a up to date pc could become old with in a year) and if you think you will buy one for only use office or some light program then you should go for cheaper Intel Dual core, core to duo or AMD dual core. I will discuss later on medium range processor. To view the product brief click here
Some Information about core i7 920 and 930
Now I would like to discuss to whom these processor is necessary. from my observation if you need a gaming pc or your work on heavy multimedia then you will find the fun of work from these processors. But if you think on short term means you are buying pc for one year time(the way computing powers increases a up to date pc could become old with in a year) and if you think you will buy one for only use office or some light program then you should go for cheaper Intel Dual core, core to duo or AMD dual core. I will discuss later on medium range processor. To view the product brief click here
Some Information about core i7 920 and 930
| CPU | Core i7-920 | Core i7-930 |
| Stepping | D0 | D0 |
| Frequency | 2.66GHz | 2.8GHz |
| Configuration | 20 x 133 | 21 x 133 |
| Number of cores | 4 x physical, 4 x logical | 4 x physical, 4 x logical |
| Core | Bloomfield | Bloomfield |
| Packaging | LGA1366 | LGA1366 |
| L1 cache | 32KB L1 data, 32KB L1 instruction per core | 32KB L1 data, 32KB L1 instruction per core |
| L2 cache | 256KB per core, inclusive | 256KB per core, inclusive |
| L3 cache | 8MB accessible by all cores, inclusive | 8MB accessible by all cores, inclusive |
| TDP | 130W | 130W |
Another thing is overclocking. As I previously mentioned that you need high quality motherboard for overclocking because of the handling of extra load of voltage which will require for overclocking the processor. One other thing is the cooling option of motherboard. It is tactless of me to mention the name of the company but one definite version of motherboard set on on fire when high performance processor add up to the system. Later investigation find that cooling option is not adequate which create this mishap. So before make a buy do some research
