When is Intel ending i7 920 production

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I'm wondering this because i'm building a new rig here in a month or so and my local microcenter has only 14 left in stock. Should i expect them to get another shipment before xmas?
 
Sherloc said:
I'm wondering this because i'm building a new rig here in a month or so and my local microcenter has only 14 left in stock. Should i expect them to get another shipment before xmas?
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I was posting in an early i5 thread about how MC ran out of the 920's. However, the next week, they were restocked by Tuesday/Wednesday...so I would expect them to keep restocking for a while.
 
Either way it can't hurt to get the i7 now if it is at $200 because I seriously doubt it will ever go lower.
 
MC sells the 920's at a cost loss to entice you into the store so you buy other items where they can make the money.

At $200 you'd be stupid not to go the i7 920 route if you have a brick & mortar Microcenter nearby, but it is not an every day normal retail occurance.
 
i7 will probably reach its peak end of the year, followed by a slow downward slope next year and the middle of the 2 1/2 life span something "new" will pop up via AMD or Intel and at the end of its 3rd year it will probably be "old-tech."

However, my Q6600 is still kicking and I see nothing worthwhile to replace it with, nor do I really have the cash either. :p


Just my thoughts.

So, yes. You'll see more i7 for some time.
 
I want your opinion guys, I have a 920 CO does 4GHZ everyday but takes 1.4v`s to do it. Should I buy one of these D0 $200 920`s or should I hold out and just get i9?
 
You're not losing much (apart from e-peen) if you drop it to 3.9Ghz and can dramatically reduce vcore. Definitely not worth buying a D0 just to eek out another 100-300Mhz though. That money is better spent on GPU upgrades.
 
THERMAL-REACTOR said:
I want your opinion guys, I have a 920 CO does 4GHZ everyday but takes 1.4v`s to do it. Should I buy one of these D0 $200 920`s or should I hold out and just get i9?
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really?
I have a CO and I am still @ 1.2v w/ 3.8Ghz.
Does it really require 200mV for an extra 200Mhz? I never pushed it that hard because of my mediocre Zalman 9500A

Here is an old screenshot of beck in march when I was running 3.7ghz under the same voltage.
What kind of volts does the D0 need to run 4ghz stable?

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I bought my 920 in November of last year. It was one of the very first production runs so it takes more volts than most. I will wait I guess till i9 comes out and see how well they OC.
 
Ron FTL said:
Here is an old screenshot of beck in march when I was running 3.7ghz under the same voltage.
What kind of volts does the D0 need to run 4ghz stable?
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you'd probably be safe disabling the system pagefile; i noticed a huge difference when doing so on 6GB...
 
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