New i7 930!

[Demo]

I tested a 930 --- 3001A117 and that cpu realy realy sucked .... 4.4 1.45v (not linx/prime stable only boot win ...... )

So all 3001A117 will OC poorly ?

[Badfastbusa]

So all 3001A117 will OC poorly ?

Yes, I have tried one as well and it was the worst out of the bunch. You want a 3001A187.

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Yes, I have tried one as well and it was the worst out of the bunch. You want a 3001A187.

You had one aswell ?
Results in you sig. of a 3001A187 ?

[cowpuppy]

I'd be more than glad to take the worst of the bunch

[Badfastbusa]

You had one aswell ?
Results in you sig. of a 3001A187 ?

Yup, I have tested several of the 930 chips so far, and by far the 3001A187 batch is the best performer! I got 4.0ghz stable at 1.8v on one of the chips... I have bought and sold several of them.

[xann27]

Yup, I have tested several of the 930 chips so far, and by far the 3001A187 batch is the best performer! I got 4.0ghz stable at 1.8v on one of the chips... I have bought and sold several of them.

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.

[Badfastbusa]

nice!

[darpa]

Why buy an I7 930 (45nm) when you can buy a Xeon 32nm chip on or about March 16?

[zalbard]

Because it costs $700 less?

[xann27]

Because it costs $700 less?

and you can get a 930 now.

[trn]

Those Xeon 32nm's are probably going to all be $1,000+, not even in the same ballpark as a 930/920.

[Badfastbusa]

Because it costs $700 less?

^^^This!

[Badfastbusa]

and you can get a 930 now.

My fry's quit selling the dang things until the 28th It sucks, I have bought 7 of them so far and they absolutely refused to sell me one, even after throwing a fit LOL

[Cool Vibrations]

Why buy an I7 930 (45nm) when you can buy a Xeon 32nm chip on or about March 16?

Are you serious, lol?

[Badfastbusa]

Are you serious, lol?

Yeah, those are in 2 completely different price ranges LOL

[BringerOdeath]

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!

[Badfastbusa]

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!

Freaking sucks huh... I drove 130 miles (one way) and back just to get told the same thing after already buying several of them

[Dahaka]

To much bla bla and no one posting screenshot.

Come on

[BringerOdeath]

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....

[cling]

anyone know the reason for replacing 920/adding 930 ??

[BringerOdeath]

anyone know the reason for replacing 920/adding 930 ??

keeping the price performance ratio in the intel product portfolio maybe?? Not sure....

[newhit]

anyone know the reason for replacing 920/adding 930 ??

I think "Sam Oslo" answered my post about this on page 2.

[xann27]

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.

[kill_a_wat]

Because it costs $700 less?

[Badfastbusa]

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.

No, what is really sad is that my fry's was freaking completely out of 920's and the manager I was throwing a fit to really wanted to sell me one of the 930's but couldn't due to his "system not letting him do it"