Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz 8 MB LGA1366 CPU BX80601920

I upgraded a system that had an Intel Core 2 Quad (Q9550) 2.83GHz CPU to the Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz CPU. My previous Core 2 Quad processor was blazingly fast. The new Core i7 920 processor seems marginally faster than the Core 2 Quad, but it seems to handle multitasking a bit more adeptly. I'm sure that when more software becomes available that's optimized for a quad core hyperthreading CPU (like having 8 cores running simultaneously) I'll see even improved performance with this processor. A word to the wise...make sure your system provides good cooling for this CPU. In my original 'closed' ATX case I was seeing temperatures of the hottest core at around 50 degrees Celsius at idle (using Core Temp version 0.99.4.65 - 32 bit) with the stock heat sink. I changed to a Theraltake V9 "Black" ATX case and my hottest core idle temperature dropped to 39 degrees and the coolest core at 35. It's amazing what good airflow can do for your CPU. I recently put Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit) on my self built computer (Core i7 920 CPU, 6GB OCZ Gold DDR3 PC12800 SDRAM, Asus P6T LGA 1366 Triple CrossFireX/SLI Motherboard, EVGA GeForce 9800GT 512MB DDR3 PCI-e 2.0 Graphics Card and two Western Digital 1TB Caviar "Black" 7200 RPM SATA hard drives with two controllers and 32MB Cache on each drive). Once I find a compatible TV card I will 'clean' install the 64 bit version of the OS. I should get even better performance from the Core i7 920 CPU with that version of Windows 7 since it will recognize all 6GB of my RAM rather than the 3GB recognized by the 32 bit OS. Overall the processor is AWESOME! I hardly have to wait for anything to happen after I click for it to do so. Exceptions to that are when you're performing a simultaneous virus scan or backup. I understand that this processor is very good for overclocking...a realm of performance that I've not yet explored. I don't think you can go wrong with this one!

Pros: It's my first build and coming from a Pentium 4 3.4 ghz in my Dell to this processor is simply amazing. I can now play Oblivion and L4D in the settings I want! Everything else it pretty much cuts through it like butter. It get a Windows 7 WEI of 7.6 3dmark Vantage CPU score P42500+ and I have it overclocked to 3.67 with blck of 184 vcore 1.225 with vdroop. Coupled with a Cooler Master V8 it's prime 95 stable (small ffts - 2 hours, large - 2 hours, blend - 9 hours) and LinX stable (max memory 10 runs) 75 degrees C max. Ambient 80 F Cons: None Other thoughts: If you are new to overclocking like I was here are some simple steps for a modest overclock: WARNING: It is entirely possible to burn your CPU! Don't go crazy and set a high base clock from the start. Follow the steps! 1) download Realtemp.exe, cpu-z, prime 95, and LinX (google em) 2) go into your bios and increase the base clock by 5 (or 10 if impatient but remember my warning) 3) Load Windows and breath a sigh of relief if it does. But thats only 1/5 of the battle. 4) Run CPU-z to verify your overclock, close it then run realtemp. 5) Run LinX max memory, 3 runs. If it blue screens, restarts or errors then you've gone too far and you need to dial it down to keep your machine stable. Your last setting is your max overclock without adding vcore (cpu voltage). 6) If it passes with no errors and your max temps aren't above 85 C (some people use 80) then you're good, and you can add more base clock. 7) Go back to step 2 rinse and repeat. 8)Once you get to a speed you're happy with and it passes LinX, and is below 85 C, run prime 95 stress test for at least 6 hours of blend, 2 hours of small ffts, and 2 hours of large ffts. If it survives that then you're good for gaming and most everyday apps. If it survives p95 blend for 24 hours (no errors, < 85 C) then you're rock stable ready for mission critical or server work. You can run Linx for more passes or folding@home SMP for further stability testing. Finally don't expect much if you're using the heatsink that came with the processor. Good luck. If I made a mistake somewhere please correct me in the comments. BTW my motherboard is the EVGA X58 vanilla. The folks at the forums in their website are the most helpful and supportive folks you can find. Really thats the stuff that money can't buy, I strongly recommend their motherboards just for that. They have guides for more serious overclocks and guides explaining voltages, guides on optimizing Vista etc. All the info about overclocking and stability testing comes from the stickied threads on the EVGA forums

The price was better than Newegg and the shipping was faster. It was a bit tricky installing a new I7 Processor. The lack of pins caused me some concern. However, the chip dropped right into the motherboard and the socket clamped on it with no problems. I used a Scythe Mugen 2 air cooler. I was careful on installation and it fired up first shot. After settling in I started playing with over clocking. I miss-typed a setting and accidently got the chip up to 4.0 Ghz - It was stable!! Being chicken and wanting long ,reliable life (on air cooling) I backed it back down to about 3.30 Ghz. It's been running just fine for two weeks . I use it with Win 7 64 bit for amateur processing of 10 MB photographs The step up from a dual processor running Windows XP 32 bit was the biggest change I've ever experienced in upgrading my equipment . Tasks take 1/4 as long. It's been wonderful !

Stepping up from a Pentium D, or the Core 2 Duo P9500 on my laptop, I'm just amazed at the power of this CPU. I'm currently running Windows 7 (RC) 64-bit, with 12GB of Corsair 1333MHz DDR3 RAM on an Asus P6T motherboard, with two WD 1TB drives. Everything is at stock speeds. Video is nVidia GeForce 9600 GT with two ViewSonic monitors. Windows 7 delivers everything you'd want with the Core i7 processor in terms of speed and power. The 8MB L3 cache is a great adaptation for 64-bit processing - it's not widely noted, but running in 64-bit mode will give a 1.2x to 1.4x speed reduction, because the larger addresses reduce cache utilization. The Core i7's cache configuration compensates nicely for this. The QuickPath Interconnect, DDR3 memory, and three memory channels also help speed up memory access, so that memory is never a bottleneck. Overall, my system rates a Windows Experience score of 5.9, based on graphics and disk speed, but the Core i7 rates an amazing 7.4 score, and memory is 7.5. In the task manager performance panel, you see 8 CPUs, for the 4 cores and their hyperthreads. Windows 7 scheduling and threading has been updated to work with more cores and to use hyperthreads effectively; if you want more on this, listen to this podcast:[...] featuring one of the Windows kernel development team members who works on thread scheduling. In terms of user experience, I've never experienced such a responsive machine. Nothing makes it break a sweat! Photoshop uses the GPU for image rendering, and it's breathtakingly fast on image editing. Visual Studio compiles large projects many times faster than the same project on my old machines. Whatever I want, this machine does it, right now! For those who ask if there is software that can take advantage of the multiple cores, the answer is yes. Photoshop and other Adobe image and video editors have been multicore-aware for many years. Most of the MS Office apps are heavily threaded and very responsive (Outlook, Word, and Excel especially). Visual Studio runs background compiles constantly for syntax checking, and Intellisense support is always immediate. And for web development, IIS and your database of choice (SQL Server, in my case) are right ther in the background, ready to go. SQL Server, in particular, is well-designed for multicore systems. This is simply a fantastic machine, even if you're not a gamer.

My last computer was running an AMD 5000+ 2.67ghz Dual Core Processor, 4 gigs of ram and Vista 32 bit and it didn't handle my video editing well at all. I do a lot of video in AVCHD that is really hungry to eat your processor. With this processor now I can watch the playback of the files from my Sony SR 12 smoothly with no lag in it. I can render the video in about three quarters less the time now with the power of this processor. The only thing holding it back at times is Vista even though I upgraded to 64 bit for the memory reasons of course it still takes about the same amount of time for everything to boot. Sometimes when browsing Vista locks up for some odd reason but as far as transferring files and rendering video this thing is a devouring beast of my video files. Gaming is another top thing with this processor going back to older games at full everything an saying wow thats nice. I just played Medieval 2 again and had everything maxed out with huge battles and there was no slide shows like I was used to. The top thing though overall is watching AVCHD clips and rendering video in so much less time and being able to do other things while its doing that. When I get more free time I will start overclocking since this thing is destined for it. From my understanding thats what most people do with it anyways. Its made for overclocking and now that I have put all new fans and everything in my case I am ready to go and do it now. This is probably the best bargain for the i7 if you can get it overclocked and running stable. Though I found it to be the best bargain mostly because I was on a budget with my new computer. My setup is now this Intel X58SO motherboard, i7 920, 6 gigs Corsair Dominator 1600, Cooler Master V8 EVGA 8800 GTS 640MB and Vista 64. All of this comes together to make one incredible computing experience.

Not bad, would have been great, but can't use it

i am glad i purchased this cpu. this is one fast chip. i upgraded from amd 4200x2 90nm cpu. get a new hsf as soon as possible..i am personally using a thermalright true 120 ultra 1366 w\fan mount, my idle temps are about 15c cooler than stock hsf and close to 20c under full load. this chip is an easy overclocker as well. i took it to about 3.5ghz without changing any settings but the QPI(went from 133(stock) to 180) before i had to add voltage.i finally settled on 3.94ghz stable with prime95 and intel burn in test.my dual core athlon took about 40 minutes to convert dvd(on hard drive) to mp4 with nero recode, with my i7 at 3.94ghz it takes about 12-16 minutes. i could probably get over 4ghz but i don't want to exceed the recomended voltages just for 60mhz.needless to say i could'nt be happier with this cpu(almost 50% overclock). i paired this cpu with evga x58 motherboard and corsair dominator 6gb ddr 1600mhz ram.i only have 1 video card at this time but like having the upgrade path for later. don't even consider the 940 as the extra 300mhz does not warrant the hefty price increase...i was able to exceed the 965 stock speed at my stock settings. also just fyi for you overclockers i had more luck turning of turbo and hyperthreading..i encoded video with 4 cores and 8 cores and saw no real difference between them..the disabling of turbo lost me a x21 multiplier but no big deal as i used a x19 multiplier with a 208 QPI. cpu vcore 1.350v cpu vtt +175 pll vcore 1.375v vdimm 1.625v ht off turbo off x16 uncore 3333mhz ram 2:8 8-8-8-24 74 1T 3.94ghz cpu 1660mhz ram speed 8800 gts 512 @ 800 core 1998 shader 1125 memory idle temps are 30c-35c load with prime95 about 58c load with intel burn in about 68c looks like there are advantages with the batches as well my batch number is 3839A589 i hear good things about the 3841's it defintely pays to overclock this cpu at stock speed of 2.66ghz temps idle were only about 3c different than running at 3.94ghz and maybe 8c different under load. running in u2-ufo case with 9x120mm fans +1x120mm on cpu cooler.

I installed this CPU and its supplied cooler onto an ASUS P6T-Deluxe motherboard loaded with 6GB of DDR3 RAM and an ASUS 9600GT fanless video card. Installation was easy after I had the confidence to clamp it down as tightly as it needed to be, and the stock cooler attached easily. Even though no thermal paste was supplied, I had some from another job and applied it sparingly. The new system has been running for a couple of weeks, going through a battery of memory tests, hard drive tests, and installation of the operating system (64 bit Windows 7 beta, build 7000) and software. No hiccups anywhere in the process. The only thing that could possibly be registered as a complaint is that the stock cooling fan is a little loud. It's not noisy, but in a system without any noise from a video card, quiet hard drives, a quiet power supply, you can hear the CPU fan if you pay attention. The good news is that some fine aftermarket solutions exist, and should I become too sensitive to what sound there is coming from this system, that's the route I would follow. I don't regret not stepping up to the i7 940, as the price difference does not justify the apparently small increase in clock speed. While faster is always better, it doesn't always represent the best bang for the buck. I think the i7 920 does the job very well.

This worked as prommist and was reasonably priced. Delivery was as quoted.

Ich habe einen etwa 7 Jahre alten PC, der vor kurzem nicht mehr funktionierte. Schnell fand ich heraus, warum: die CPU - ein Intel Core i7-920 - hatte den Geist aufgegeben. Mit wenig Hoffnung suchte ich bei Amazon nach einer gebrauchten Ersatz-CPU und war um so freudiger überrascht, dass es hier diesbezgl. noch Angebote gibt. An dieser Stelle möchte ich betonen, dass es hier nicht um eine Kaufempfehlung oder um die Vor- und Nachteile dieser CPU gehen kann, handelt es sich hier doch um einen Jahre alten Intel Core-Prozesser der 1. (!) Generation. Das Angebot der Fa. Super Mario Bros. Zelda (ca. 50.- € für einen gebrauchten Intel Core i7-920-Prozessor im sehr guten Zustand) erschien mir am vernünftigsten, so dass ich dort sofort bestellte. Schnelle 3 Tage später wurde die Bestellung geliefert (unversehrt, sicher verpackt und optisch wirklich im sehr guten Zustand) und ich konnte die CPU in meinem PC austauschen, der seitdem wieder bestens funktioniert. Nach kurzer Kontaktaufnahme mit dem Verkäufer wurde sogar prompt eine Rechnung nachgeliefert, so dass ich alles in allem sehr gerne 5 Sterne für die Fa. Super Mario Bros. Zelda vergebe.

PCが起動しなくなったのでショップで診てもらったところCPUが原因ではないかということで購入 動画・画像編集やDTMでも処理は問題なく、まだまだ現役 消費電力には目をつぶる

Reliable older CPU that still handles basic tasks smoothly.

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