i7 930 and Microcenter

[eddieck]

You are thinking of 1156 dude. 1366 does not disable cores when turbo is enabled. You have to manualy disable them in BIOS.

So again, 920 = 21x, 930 =22x and i7 will OC farther with the 21x multi.

Disable may not have been the correct word.

 

[Rossi~]

I would. There are still tons of single-threaded applications, and being able to disable a core or two and increase the multiplier of the core that's being used is a nice feature.

But if you've reached a maximum overclock then turbo mode is pretty pointless.. That extra little bit of power when you've already got 4Ghz 211x19......
The 930 will, unless a smaller die or is UBER overclockable, which is doubtful, would not be worth changing to from a 920

 

[x509]

I agree with all your points with the exception of number 3. Frys has one of THE most relaxed return policies ever. They literally invites abuse. I've returned over 15 hdtvs, numerous video cards (including two 5870s just recently), motherboards, cpus, hard drives, hell just about every computer part (kid you not - i call it renting) without issue and unlike microcenter, they don't have any restock fees (at least not for those components). And this is just within the last couple years. I'm sure microcenter would have banned my ass a looong long time ago.

But anyways yah, I do LIKE microcenter better - just that one point.

That's all very nice UNLESS you are the poor schmoe who buys some of this returned stuff. Until I learned to look very carefully at the label on the box, I sometimes bought stuff that had been returned. Only the returns weren't "new in box condition." Once I ended up with a cheap-o network card instead of the expensive sound card I bought for my kids' system. Fry's put me through hell to get that problem fixed. Treated me like * I * was the one trying to cheat them.

So Newegg gets practically 100% of my business. But I guess I should give the local Microcenter a try sometimes.

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