Intel Core i7 920

czajar

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Good morning all. I'm looking at getting the Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920 and was wondering if it's necessary that I get the 3.0 GHz or if it didn't really matter anymore. Thanks in advance. Ryan
 

warezme

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i7 920 user here.

Mine is air cooled Monsoon Vigor III, 3.8Ghz with NO voltage mods, north of 4.2Ghz with voltage boost. Its the old chip to not D0. Those i7's are totally unbeatable no matter how much you pimp your AMD it can't hang. I mated mine with with a pair 295GTX's and 12GB (upgraded since I made my sig) of dominator memory. Sorry AMD, you don't have anything that comes close to that on air.

You don't need the higher priced model unless you go for the unlocked extreme version otherwise not worth the cost because the 920 delivers tons of performance as is.
 

Nikita_4

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I have a windows 7 home prem based HP Pavilion DV5-2070us Entertainment Notebook PC 64-bit (x64) with a Dual Core Intel i3-350 @ 2.27 GHz with a 1 TB HDD motherboard SPS 607605-001 with WANN capability Bluetooth Capability, question i have is with the info i gave u can u be able to tell me if i can upgrade to Intel i7 n if i can which one do i need and do i need to replace the cooling fan and upgrade the RAM cards above 4+ GB