So all 3001A117 will OC poorly ?
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I'd be more than glad to take the worst of the bunch
im glad that i have one of the better batches so far! my first post is proof i have a 3001A187! i can get it to 4.5 so far, but i cant do much at that speed. if i load up a game, like Mass effect 2 or Crysis Warhead, it plays superior for about 5 mins, then locks the game, but windows continues to run no prob... seems the games close for some reason, but i dont get a BSOD unless im not running enough voltage.
nice!
Why buy an I7 930 (45nm) when you can buy a Xeon 32nm chip on or about March 16?
Because it costs $700 less?
Those Xeon 32nm's are probably going to all be $1,000+, not even in the same ballpark as a 930/920.
I went to The fry's in Sacramento yesterday and the girl said it was in stock, but when she tried to sell it to me the computer said they could not be sold until a certain date. This was pretty lame a sI had to drive 2 hours to Sacramento.....I gues they weren't supposed to be selling them before and maybe got scolded by intel and had to stop selling them!
To much bla bla and no one posting screenshot.
Come on :(
Yeah, I was kind of ticked off, I drve 99 miles one way to go there....Plus she couldn't say when they would be selling them again....:(
anyone know the reason for replacing 920/adding 930 ??
thats funny and all kinds of sad that Fry's would sell them for 2 weeks, and then stop selling them. My guess is they want to clear out thier invnetory on the 920s. i used to work for Fry's and thier buyers would sometimes make the most rediculous decissions when it came to hot items. once they took the commission on a $10,000 TV and made it $300 for 2 days. then they made the commission $0 from then on. why stock a tv that costs 10k, and not pay a sales person to sell it?
moving on...
i think these 930's were released to keep the market in intel's favor. what has AMD done in the last 3 months to excite the market? the Radeon 5900 GPUs? well, nVidia had a card that was on the same level as ATI's over a year ago. GTX295. now the GTX300 series are comming and AMD wont have bullet in thier clip to fire at the army of nVidia customers for a great deal of time... what i mean is that durring this economy, we're seeing the big corperations pull out all the stops and make the best technology they can, in hopes of shutting out the competition. im afraid we wont see gains as strong as we're seeing now, in the next 3-4 years. so companies are releasing all they got now, (or very soon) to try and gain market share.
think about it, how often does the average end user upgrade thier PC? (average, not people like us that get the best every year or so) about 4-6 years. so, while the economy is down, the companies are selling what they can. because they wont be seeing progress in sales the way they are now.