Core i7 930 - $249.99 in-store only at Microcenter

[bka4u2c]

OR WAIT until the 8th at Microcenter when the 930 is $229. Ka-ching!

(sourced from MC insider).

Picked one up from MC yesterday. They are good about giving a price difference if it goes lower within a week of purchase. So if it does go on sale on the 8th I'll take a trip down to the store for my $20 credit. Which will probably be spent before I leave the store, LOL!

 

[klocwerk]

Picked one up from MC yesterday. They are good about giving a price difference if it goes lower within a week of purchase. So if it does go on sale on the 8th I'll take a trip down to the store for my $20 credit. Which will probably be spent before I leave the store, LOL!

So how's it compare to the OCed 920?
Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[bka4u2c]

I haven't had a chance to overclock yet. By the time I got it installed, updated FW on my motherboard and SSD and installed Windows 7 I was pooped and it was 3am. But I will be testing overclocks tonight and seeing what the max OC is and where I want it to run on a daily basis. I can update later.

 

[SunnyD]

So how's it compare to the OCed 920?
Inquiring minds want to know!

It's the exact same thing, with a 1-higher multiplier.

 

[bka4u2c]

It's the exact same thing, with a 1-higher multiplier.

Really? How did your overclock go?

 

[OBLAMA2009]

this is a good deal but not mc's best

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

this is a good deal but not mc's best

Common word is wait until Monday for 229.

 

[SunnyD]

Really? How did your overclock go?

My overclock of what? My 920? I'm running it at 3.33GHz. What? Only 3.33GHz you say? Yeah... 3.33GHz @ 1.056v. Nice and cool temps.

I don't have a 930, but everything I've seen points to them being only better than the 920 that they have that +1 multiplier advantage. Other than that, the 930's are the exact same stepping (D0).

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Picked one up from MC yesterday. They are good about giving a price difference if it goes lower within a week of purchase. So if it does go on sale on the 8th I'll take a trip down to the store for my $20 credit. Which will probably be spent before I leave the store, LOL!

I'm not quite that lucky - its 10-15 in gas to get there and back for me, so I try to plan well.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Common word is wait until Monday for 229.

why? is that the day their ad comes out? how do you know it is going to be 229.

 

[Gillbot]

I keep talking myself out of stopping in to MC and grabbing a couple.

 

[klocwerk]

I keep talking myself out of stopping in to MC and grabbing a couple.

Limit 1 per household will help you resist.

 

[bka4u2c]

I got a chance to play around with overclocking a little last night but ran into a problem with raising it above 200. I remember having this problem with my 920 and it was a setting on my DFI board. So right now I'm running at 175(3.6GHz) with a voltage of 1.2x. Temps are 40 at idle and prime drove them up to high 50's according to coretemp.


3DMark vantage score:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1954912

Not sure when I'll get around to trying to get it stable enough to run higher to run benchies because after all the trial and error I ended up reinstalling Windows.

 

[SunnyD]

Limit 1 per household will help you resist.

If they have enough in stock, they have no problems handing out two or three at a time.

 

[Gillbot]

Limit 1 per household will help you resist.

Nah, buy one, put in car, go back in, rinse repeat. If they refuse that, I can take a few friends with me.

I'm not gonna stop though, I don't NEED one since I have two other 1366 cpu's to mess with.

 

[Anubis]

I had my sister pick me up one as she lives like 10 min from the MC in Boston, they gave her some shit for just buying it and nothing else because they take such a loss on it. Kept asking her whet she was building and if she needed anything else

212 after taxes for the 920

 

[SunnyD]

I had my sister pick me up one as she lives like 10 min from the MC in Boston, they gave her some shit for just buying it and nothing else because they take such a loss on it. Kept asking her whet she was building and if she needed anything else

212 after taxes for the 920

That's pretty much all I picked up when I bought mine a couple weeks ago too. I did grab a couple computer games too, but they were older "bargain shelf" ones for the kids.

Their sales people work on commission though - so don't read too much into it. They weren't hassling her about buying the CPU (they're not making a loss otherwise they wouldn't have been selling them @ $199 for the better part of the last year). They were just trying to get her to buy more to pad their commission.

 

[klocwerk]

I had my sister pick me up one as she lives like 10 min from the MC in Boston, they gave her some shit for just buying it and nothing else because they take such a loss on it. Kept asking her whet she was building and if she needed anything else

212 after taxes for the 920

Funny, I had no trouble at the same store. Granted I had some $5 canned air and a cheap OEM hard drive too... but still. They can't have huge margins on those.

Maybe she got a manager who actually knows something, I think I got a checkout drone. She seemed like she could care less about anything.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

why? is that the day their ad comes out? how do you know it is going to be 229.

mid-level dept guy at MC. BYOPC sale goes off on the 7th at close.. He said it's already set up for 229.99 the next morning.