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Originally Posted by MightyBobo
I'm surprised you went with such an old processor for a recent build? Or did you find a good used deal?
Not trying to hijack, just curious...you might want to throw this in the for sale section, also...
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Yep its already up there. Just wanted to post here since more locals visit this part of the forum
I went with an old proc because it was new in box and had the batch # i was looking for. There were only a few hundred i7 920's in this batch # and they are all considered "golden". Did you see the OC and undervolt i was able to achieve? most i7's cant even stand 1.14 volts on normal clock speeds. Anyways I got the Proc for $100. The mobo and RAM I found discounted from newegg. The rest were parts I had laying around from the Core2Quad build. Keep in mind I built this before Intel released IB. There isnt enough jump in gaming performance for me to upgrade again to IB either. Its only a 5-10 fps increase and that is only on gtx 680's or 7970's. Most cards dont bottleneck the 1st gen i7's when overclocked high. I will be upgrading to Haswell though next spring. 8-12 core processors sound pretty drool worthy
And dont worry if any of you have questions feel free to ask. It would be awesome to have some fellows Z owners to talk tech with (=