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CoreI7 920 worth upgrading

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I'm going to be upgrading my PC soon and wanted to know if it was worth upgrading my processor yet or wait :bounce:

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currently using an i7 920.....yet to be bottlenecked.......
If you get bored and feel like "upgrading" then just overclock the *** out of it.

Wait for haswell imo.

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Sry to sound noobish but, what is Haswell, is that the next line of Intel CPU's


Message edited by Reveyah on 02-03-2012 at 04:16:11 PM
Reply to Reveyah

No, the next line of cpu's are ivybridge which will go to about 2014. Then comes haswell. For now just overclock your 920, 920's love being overclocked.

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Reply to amuffin

Ok sweet TY for the Help Will just OverClock my 920.

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Reveyah wrote :

Ok sweet TY for the Help Will just OverClock my 920.



Upgrading a core i7 920 (which will run quite happily at 4GHz) to an i7 2600k is a lot of money for a small gain in performance.

In situations where your i7 920 is not bottlenecking your performance, "small" becomes "non-existent".

Personally I'm bored with my build. i7 920 zinging along quite merrily at 4GHz. Wish there was a good enough performance reason to upgrade cos I love tinkering. But at the moment there just isn't.

Reply to bwrlane

There is little reason to change right now from the Intel® Core™ i7-920 to an Intel Core i7-2600 especially if you are using this for a gaming system. If I was really looking to upgrade at this time I think I would be looking at a better video card or more likely a new SSD.

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i have a 920 and i will be waiting till haswell b4 i even look at another cpu. i will be upgrading the gfx sometime over the next year as i have no fears of bottlenecking for the next 2 years at least.
seriously if a 920 can handle 2 gtx 590's then its gonna be a long time b4 any single card chokes it.

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Wait for Haswell to come out in 2013. That is Intel's next generation CPU architecture.

Ivy Bridge, which is coming out this year, is a minor update of the Sandy Bridge CPU core.

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Reply to jaguarskx

The i7-920 will turbo up to almost 3GHz, but can probably be overclocked to 4GHz or close to it. At that speed and under a heavy load it will be roughly the same speed as an i7-2600k. Of course the 2600k can be overclocked an additional 33% or so.

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