News Intel to discontinue Core i7 920 & 940 CPUs

ive never used intel and never will, there just a rip off company, got no concideration for there customers.....high prices.... ending the cpu line not long after it started....im glad im with AMD im happy with my 955 BE and am3 board, =future proof
take care all

 

Wait, i don't get this.

Is it good or bad?

 

Yeah, I'm having a hard time finding them as well on the regular sites and price guides, but the shop I use whenever I want server products like drive controllers and SAS cables and stuff have them, for the same price as the three first i7 SKUs. The 3.2GHz product is probably a bigger waste than the 965 since I'll bet my underpants it doesn't have an unlocked multiplier.

They also have 1.86GHz dual cores, 2GHz and 2.1GHz quad cores for dual sockets that are cheaper than the 920. Maybe they would do well as budget processors once overclocked - but we never hear much about them or read reviews.

 

so let me get the straight that if my 920 fails in a year or so, I'm going to have to buy the top of the range i7 to replace the thing

 

wow. just wow intel. how long is it before sandy bridge again? what was the point of i7 i meean when i5 comes out in september i7 would have been on the market for less than a year right? *sigh* wheres my AMD t-shirt?

 

Like the current 150 to 400£ would not be expensive enough.

They ain't a charity either....

S754, 939, 940 AM2, AM2+, plenty of sockets and remember K8 pricing before C2D launch?

 

Forgotten socket 939 have we?



FYI - I had a great AMD socket 939 system BTW (which my folks now use).

 

Totally true - AMD have done this trick before, as I've mentioned. Killing off socket 939 was a serious irritation for me, particularly since I've got a spare 939 Athlon64 processor, but no board for it to go in. My A8N32/Opteron 170 combo is still going strong. In total time used, it is probably my longest serving gaming system, actually - it can still handle most games I throw at it, provided I don't mind load times being a bit longer.

This is the second... potentially third time Intel have done this: previous two being; socket 423 to 478 transition (P4) and socket 775 to socket 775 (when they changed the electrical specifications of the chips with Core 2.)

 

There's two things I'm thinking right now...

1. Thank god I didn't buy an i7 yet.

2. LGA 1156 isn't going to last long either.

 

I know! It's preaty cool, my Jan 2006 comp still runs strong with the Athlon 4400+ X2. The only game that shows signs that my CPU is limiting (other than Crysis) is GTA4, which is not a real problem. I did not expect to have my computer to last so much long.

I am also pissed that Socket 939, which was awesome, is now gone.. room for a ultra sucky AM2 socket with CPUs holding, and insulting the same name.

 

Exactly. That, or buy a new i5 mobo and CPU, and chuck in two thirds of the RAM you are currently using with your X58 motherboard. Should work out the same price or cheaper. IIRC, RAM itself isn't channeled, and it is all down to the board. If you had 4 sticks and a quad channel board, you could just plug them in and the northbridge does the work.

However, with the current way things are going with northbridges being on the CPU, in the future it might all depend on the CPU you use, and thus motherboards you buy will be channel limited by what socket is on the board rather than what chipset is on the board.

 

I have found the 920 equivalent much cheaper in the US, one site selling it for $300 but can't find it cheaper in the UK

 

Dam, i was gunna get a i7 920 in like 2 weeks, does this mean i have to wait until september to get a worse CPU for more money?
Or should i just buy a 920, and hope it doesn't break?

 

To be fair, unless you push chip-killing voltage through it (or it's a duff chip which means that Intel would be required to honour warranty on it) the chances of a CPU breaking 'just like that' is so negligible it's probably not worth worrying about.

Actually, that's a good question - are Intel going to keep some stock to cover warranty RMAs for 920/940/950's that die, or would they give you a shiny new 965/975 EE? Or would they say, "Tough, here's a new i5 chip (nearest equivalent) now go buy a new mobo."?

I wasn't that keen on AM2 and I was very annoyed they killed 939 off so quickly... but what annoyed me the most was that DDR still had a lot of life in it when they switched. AMD have always hung back on support for the latest type of RAM (a good thing, in my opinion - let Intel make everyone adopt the new super-expensive RAM) but when they jumped to DDR2, it was still markedly more expensive than DDR. Of course, now, DDR is expensive as hell, DDR2 is cheap-as-chips and DDR3 is coming down in price quite quickly.

When my Opteron 170 was paired with a 4850, it coped with Crysis very well @ 1920x1200/High. Load times were quite long, but they weren't terrible. Shorter than the load times of Red Alert on my old P75 back in the day... (sitting for five minutes for one of the later levels to load...) I never tried GTA4 (didn't want all that GfWL, RSC etc on my comp.

 

if you dont intend to upgrade your CPU over the next 3 years then i7 920 is still a good options.

for me im not fussed about this, all platforms die (although pissed that its this quick)

i wont be upgrading my CPU or mobo for at least 2-3 years now and by that time the i5 platform will also be obsolete anyway.

the 920 hammers anything currently out overclocks well and i dont except it to become a bottle neck anytime soon.

SATA 6GB/s isnt going to be out for a while yet so thats hardly a downside to the x58 platform anyway.

 

Quite.

Worry about SATA 6Gbps when HDDs and SSDs can saturate the current SATA standard.

 

Therefore i could hope there is a big sale on just before they stop selling, and get big discount?

 

OMG!

just brough my I7, building a new Rig! now i feel screwed!

should i sell off my parts before i regrate it!

man i duno anymore! what the Hell intel! thought I7 was the NEW greatness!!! then you go and screw with me.

why cant they just not make the i5 keep i7! make more SENSE? no?
god dam...

it is bad new!

Need some expert advice!!?

 

I felt the same with AMD when with the Socket 939, and decided to go DDR2 and target the low end market instead of competing with Intel despite creating an Intel killer CPU.
The worst is since that decision, DDR1 RAM prices sky-rocketed and stop being in large production. (and now probably stopped). So now I was stock with 2GB of RAM, and lucky enough had a friend that had 1GB DDR1 that had no more use (as he upgraded his system) with by pure coincidence the same speed and timing, and I added them to my system.

So today if my CPU or motherboard (out of warranty now), brakes... well I am screwed for a new motherboard and CPU and RAM, despite being able to play the latest games with no problem except for Crysis and GTA IV.

 

Sounds a bit like a Microtheft-like bonehead -money grubbing move to be honest.