For the past eleven and a half months, almost every ardent enthusiast running an X58-based Nehalem motherboard had undoubtedly heard of the wonderful advantages of running an Intel Core i7 920 for overclocking related purposes.
Core i7 930 2.88GHz to soon replace Core i7 920 2.66GHz
The LGA 1366 legacy continues in Q1 2010
For the past eleven and a half months, almost every ardent enthusiast running an X58-based Nehalem motherboard had undoubtedly heard of the wonderful advantages of running an Intel Core i7 920 for overclocking related purposes. While the legacy of this chip has only recently begun to rise in the hearts of the global consumer population, it is with great hope that we remain confident its performance will continue to endure into the 45nm generation of 2010.
Intel has recently confirmed plans to discontinue the Core i7 920 2.66GHz in order to make way for a even greater successor in the lineage, the Core i7 930 2.88GHz. It should be made clear that this is not recent news, considering the ubiquitous headlines back in June suggesting such an event to occur to the entire current Core i7 lineup. We have already witnessed the replacement of the Core i7 Extreme 965 3.20GHz with the 975 3.33GHz, the replacement of the Core i7 940 2.93GHz with the 950 3.06GHz, a few stepping revision updates along the way (C0/C1 to D0), and now this.
Just like its predecessor, the Core i7 930 2.88GHz will be a quad-core, eight-thread chip designed for socket LGA 1366. This last little detail is an interesting point considering the widespread notion of the LGA 1366 platform going “Extreme Edition only” throughout the entirety of 2010...
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