Recent content by spylake

New reason to only buy a DO stepping. The current issue of a magazine, that shall go nameless, benched a 920 CO vs the Phenom and a top Core 2 dual. The 920 was well ahead in all benchmarks except for "Fear" where the 920 was around 57 fps and the phenom was over 200 fps. The text stated...

I think Delisting is their way of saying "Out of Stock" the i7-920 was delisted for a long time when it was in short supply.

The whole thing strikes me as odd. Go to a McDonald's and you get Coke. Go to a Dairy Queen and it Pepsi. Negotiating exclusive contract is hardly uncommon. Why it this different when an Intel negotiates a better deal with a Dell to use Intel only?

A few questions for the experts. If I go for the W3520 do any standard desktop Mb's wire the ECC pins to the RAM sockets? In other words could I use ECC DDR3 RAM if I wanted to? I can't think of any reason they would not make the extra 30 connections other than spite. second Q Who...

Seems to exist http://www.provantage.com/inte...0601w3520~7ITEP31R.htm

So if I understand correctly then a Xeon W3520 is a Bloomfield CPU with one active QPI and ECC enabled. It will operate in a standard X58 MB with or without ECC memory even though the MB makers won't certify it for such use?

You are thinking of the 5500 series. The W3520 is a i7-620 with ECC added, It is single chip only and has only one QPI or at least only one that works

I am trying to figure out what the differences are between a W3520 and an I7-920. Comparing their data sheets gave me the following pin differences PIN I7-920 -- Xeon W3520 A36 RSVD -- DDR0_ECC[1] CMOS I/O A37 RSVD -- DDR0_ECC[5] CMOS I/O B34 RSVD -- DDR0_ECC[6] CMOS I/O...

All is cool. Besides we are both from Florida so we are practically family.

To be honest I have no clue. I haven't seen any complaints that the I7 family is flawed in any significant area or that they crash more than they should. There has been no suggestion that with the release of the D0 stepping Engineers should stop designing bridges with the C0 variant. I...

Thanks. I'm glad someone found it useful. Good luck with your purchase, I can't find it in stock anywhere. I've been looking at the Xeon3520 (I7-920) but Gigabyte said their boards are not certified for a Xeon while at the same time hinting they should work just fine. If anyone knows a...

Kinda funny I agree ... here is the extended description from Intel AAJ69. CPUID Instruction Returns Incorrect Brand String Problem: When a CPUID instruction is executed with EAX = 80000002H, 80000003H and 80000004H, the return values will contain the brand string with an additional...

My word ... Like a lot of you I was all all set to buy an I7-920 when word leaked that a D0 stepping was coming. Some rumors said it was only a packaging change. Others said it would over clock better or would have lower power dissipation. What was missing from the discussion was any...

I've read a lot of speculation on how a D0 differs from the C0 and C1 (yes Virginia there is a C0 and C1 stepping). Overclocking reports seem to indicate there are thermal and or voltage improvements in the D0 stepping. On this score I have no new information other than to say Intel has not...