Intel I7 920 / upgrade ?

[Warrior]

Only good thing about the newer chips is power saving, an OC'd 920+ will take a good 300+W. They like voltage, and will use all of it. I had a 920 D0 pushing 350w on water @4.3. Anything passed 3.8/3.9 you need major voltage. and it'll take it too.

 

[JR88]

yeah pretty much the power saving alone would be very real going to Ivy/Haswell its very tempting rofl

 

[flod]

Only good thing about the newer chips is power saving, an OC'd 920+ will take a good 300+W. They like voltage, and will use all of it. I had a 920 D0 pushing 350w on water @4.3. Anything passed 3.8/3.9 you need major voltage. and it'll take it too.

how many volts was this at?

 

[Wotryp]

agree

 

[primetime]

Only good thing about the newer chips is power saving, an OC'd 920+ will take a good 300+W. They like voltage, and will use all of it. I had a 920 D0 pushing 350w on water @4.3. Anything passed 3.8/3.9 you need major voltage. and it'll take it too.

Intel Xeon X5660 before overclock is only 95 watts so maybe 150-180 heavily overclocked max...just saying....and most use less than 150 since they settle around 4ghz rather than going for world records ...i could run some test with one of those outlet meters if anyone is that curious

 

[Riccochet]

My 920 D0 would do 4.2 easily. It did crank out some heat though. I welcomed the power savings going to my current 4670k.

 

[kniaugaudiskis]

Intel Xeon X5660 before overclock is only 95 watts so maybe 150-180 heavily overclocked max...just saying....and most use less than 150 since they settle around 4ghz rather than going for world records ...i could run some test with one of those outlet meters if anyone is that curious

A short comparison of stock and OC total system power draw readings measured with an outlet meter would be great man.

 

[primetime]

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Originally Posted by primetime
Intel Xeon X5660 before overclock is only 95 watts so maybe 150-180 heavily overclocked max...just saying....and most use less than 150 since they settle around 4ghz rather than going for world records ...i could run some test with one of those outlet meters if anyone is that curious
A short comparison of stock and OC total system power draw readings measured with an outlet meter would be great man.

ok at 4.2ghz it idles around 196watts total system power...it jumps to 323watts running intel burn test at max setting......this is of course not stressing the gpu cause it be much higher if i was but its not part of the test
at 2672mhz ( i dropped the multi to 14 only...left voltage as is) it idles around 180watts and it uses about 261 watts total when running intel burn test at max....i hope this answers some of the questions people had....and btw i currently have all power savings set off including speedstep......if i were using those you could drop another 35 watts from the idle usage on both clocks but obviously would make no difference when its stressed....so there ya go just minus about 30 watts if using cstates and speedstep at idle usage otherwise you should get close to what i measured

I guess my earlier statement was incorrect unless its measured at idle usage....otherwise i was way off and i guess wronge...of course were talking total system power so it be hard to say if i only used ssd drives and not like 10 fans, expansion cards, and the rest of the crap drawing power in my mid tower

 

[Warrior]

Yeah, pretty close to the numbers off the top of my head from 3 years ago. I can only remember total system power... The point still stands that this proc is a power hog in comparison.

 

[primetime]

Yeah, pretty close to the numbers off the top of my head from 3 years ago. I can only remember total system power... The point still stands that this proc is a power hog in comparison.

lol i proved myself wrong and confirmed you were correct....now if it not to much trouble what do those newer systems take in on total system draw....just so we can accurately see how many watts difference it would be...course if you don't still have an outlet meter i can understand you wont be able to provide this but i figured i would ask anyway...btw when they list a cpu as a 60watt like the x5639 are they referring to idle usage or full max usage and if idle are they counting speed step and cstates to achieve that value or not?

 

[jrodefeld]

I had a 920 D0 overclocked to 4ghz until I built a new PC earlier this year. I've now got an Intel i7 4930k. Certainly the speed difference you notice will depend on what you use your PC for, but I've noticed huge speed increases across the board.

I do some video editing as well as gaming. In Premiere it used to take me 19 to 20 hours to encode a full length HD video on the 920 with 2 pass VBR.

Now encoding the same video with the same quality settings takes less than two hours.

I know the six core intels excel especially with multithreaded encoding applications, but I was still shocked to be able to encode video at literally 10 times the speed I could before.

If you haven't been running an overclocked 920, definitely overclock it first. You can hit 4ghz no problem. But I think that the 920 will definitely be holding you back on newer games and, especially if you do video editing and things like that, a newer CPU and platform would definitely be worth it.