Can the FIRST i7 still game? | i7 920 Review

[@DJSekuHusky]

I'm still running a 990X in 2023. My main rig is a 9700K, but my home server is my retired gaming rig that lasted me nearly a decade. No longer liquid cooled and no longer overclocked to 5GHz; it's running base clocks and only handling media now. It was keeping up with 7th Gen Intel systems and Ryzen 1 era systems, but the lack of certain instruction sets eventually forced the upgrade.

[@GunMedalGleam]

Its sad that they nerf the first gens x58 on the software side like they did. My x58 set up lasted me a long time.

[@SkunkShrimp]

Still running an i7 920 oc'd to 4.2ghz for over a decade now.

[@JuanDiaz-jo1rw]

I'm still rocking the i7 960 OC @4.3ghz. Wish I had a watercooler, I could push it to 5.0ghz. I have it paired up with a GTX 1660 Super. No bottleneck. I can run Fortza and the Witcher 3 arround 60 to 100 FPS. The Witcher 3 hits harder because of the MODs they did to the game.

[@slob12]

I still have mine coupled with a gtx 970 and 12gb ram....it really has served us all well this cpu and for older titles it is still great...i still have the corsair H50 radiator cooler attached...still cooling well after14 bloody years...i dare not replace the paste for fear of breaking the unit😂

[@fanroza_sa]

How

[@SkunkShrimp]

​@@fanroza_saftw 3 motherboard with water cooling.

[@ellooku]

What is the CPU TDP and temperature after overclock?

[@ironiclogic1]

Still rocking an i7 920 in 2023 and honestly, it will run anything alongside my 2080Ti even at high settings. Looking to upgrade soon as no AVX support is becoming an issue, but the performance has been outstanding.

[@matics28]

I'm sorry but i call bullshit on that lol, even my 6700k is bottlenecking a 2080Ti.

[@ironiclogic1]

@@matics28 The games run just fine. I'm sure you're right, since it's an old CPU, but so much of the analysis around CPU performance has little to do with real-world performance dude. Anyway, if the GPU is doing the heavy lifting then you really don't need insane CPU performance. That said, yes, an upgrade is overdue :)

[@cpt_fisto6810]

​@@matics28it's not bs, the bottleneck is between 5-20%. So while the btlneck does exist, the performance difference is negligible. In real world numbers if the card hits say 100fps with no cpu btlnecking, then you're still going to hit 80-95fps. I would reccomend anyone still using this cpu to overclock it to 3.66/3.7ghz on air and 4ghz on liquid. Oh and oc the ram too incrementaly and leave it on the highest most stable speed.

[@_tommy_61]

​@cpt_fisto6810 The bottleneck is 50-60, not 5-20 lol. 920 is shit even tho I have it. Even the video shows that it can't deal with a 980 ti, 2080 ti is simply out of it's league.

[@CallumZoe]

It would depend on what the system is doing. If he's running 4k with hdr then it might not be bottlenecking that bad. But with anything less than 4k hdr then will be heavily bottlenecked with a gtx 980ti let along a rtx 2080ti. You got the money to buy one of the highest end Turing gpus but not for a even a i5 9600k with a z370 or a r5 5600 and a b550?

[@theguardianarchives433]

I had that Desktop my baby. I still have the CPU from this system 😎💪🏾 played so many emulators on it PC games GTA 4 graduated college got my first software engineer position all on this PC. Just an absoluye beast served me well from February 2009 to 2020

[@92010t]

lov the direction that your taking on your videos. I don’t find these types of vids that often but im glad your making them

[@vladlvv]

The number of views does not match the quality of the video. Despite the fact that the old i7 is a worn topic, i still found something new, never seen such a case

[@EMBtech]

Thank you!

[@sirtanon1]

Those i7-920s are exceptional overclockers. At their stock 2.66ghz speed, they're pretty 'meh', but almost all of them can easily hit 3.5ghz with little or no voltage boost on air cooling. Many can go over 4ghz with a moderate voltage boost, although they tend to run hot. With a good air cooler or AIO, 4 ghz is usually a no-brainer. I don't know if that XPS can do any overclock, but if it can, it's definitely worth doing.

[@Hughesburner]

Just got two i7 950 systems from marketplace, one was free, SUPER dirty, the other was $20, inside of a stacker 820 with a high end MSI MB, the system was super high end at one point. That whole triple channel ram thing, made life hard in the future for ram upgrades. I will likely build the best system using both systems and sell the rest. Most of my Steam library is 2010- to maybe 2016, so it won't make a bad second PC.

[@sokpisethlalalanno]

WoW that is still a monster 4c and 8t is sick as always

[@mr.d.6766]

I own that exact same DELL computer with an I7 920, bought it new in 2008 and still using it to this day to write that comment.

[@h1tzzYT]

I usually dont propagate overclocking on modern cpus that much but these old chips definitely needs some, even with basic all core oc first gen Core i series gains some ridiculous 30-40% of extra performance

[@uhohwhy]

and mere 5% overclock on modern CPU will set your house on fire...

[@h1tzzYT]

@@uhohwhy or straight performance regression in some games, with modern cpus its all about ram tuning, the last bastion of modern CPU overclocking.

[@TheGreatOne93]

This was my old PC. The Dell Studio XPS 435MT Classic lasted me so well since February 2009. My Mother bought it for me for my birthday and with her income taxes. Excellent investment that lasted me through highschool college and my first career job in IT. And really helped cultivate my passion for computers

[@m8x425]

Yeah.... I remember looking at those Dell's at Fry's electronics in early 2009. They were going for over $1200 on sale. I ended up building my own i7-920 system with a Radeon 4830 for a little cheaper than the Dell. Back then I was on the fence between building around an i7-920 or a C2Q q9550, but I went with the i7 and didn't regret it. Before Covi-D, i used to buy custom built lga1366 systems for real cheap, then upgrade them by dropping in a 6-core Xeon, upgrade the RAM, add a SSD, and usually an 8GB RX 580. IMO, out of all the Xeons, the x5675 is probably the best value and most effective since it's baseclock is 3.06Ghz and it has a 95W TDP..... but I've had a couple of the 130W TDP x5690 processors and they're overclocking monsters. The w series is nice but ineffective for the extra cost. The trick with overclocking old Nehalem processors is to do it purely through the baseclock, which raises the Uncore/cache frequency as well.

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 yay i recently rebuilt my HP Z200 with an i7-870 X3470 4/8, for asthetics i moved the motherboard and power supply into a modern gaming case and added a Cooler master 212 Tower Air cooler, works fine for older games

[@nitro_gladiator_6965]

I had the i7920 with a gt1030 couldn’t play much. Then got a Ryzen 73700x with a 3070ti and it gets the job done. I only play 1080p so there’s no bottlenecking either

[@GunMedalGleam]

The quad cores will struggle. The 6 core 12 threaded processers for the platform are still usable in 2024. Overclocked you can couple them with some pretty powerful graphics cards. 4th gen i7/Xeons are my go too because they very power efficient for the performance the offer.

[@askjeevescosby2928]

The fact that it can still run a bunch of modern games shows that this was extremely quick in 2008.

[@KingStefan70]

Exactly, not bad, 15 years old.😮

[@north_music]

Hey! Loved your video! How were you able to run Cinebench without AVX support? I am trying to run it with a 920 but it won't work.

[@EMBtech]

Honestly, I'm not sure. I remember having to use an older hard drive to work with the motherboard, so maybe it has to do with the older version of all he software I used.

[@north_music]

@@EMBtech Thank you! Yeah, maybe an older version of Cinebench would not need that AVX support

[@proteasadaniel8170]

this platform generally supports more than 12 GB, in the end I guess it is up to the motherboard but I personally have an I7 920 with 24 GB in triple channel and I've also had 48 GB paired with a xeon x5690

[@luiscid1900]

How does it perform? Dies it hold up well with newer generations?

[@-Ncrypt]

Omg yes the triple channel memory architecture!! How weird it was lol.. I'm surprised manufacturers haven't moved to that model today just to be able to sell more DIMMs, but maybe I shouldn't even say that to not give them any ideas 😁

[@proteasadaniel8170]

@@luiscid1900 - well it does show up her age now but for my tasks (some VM's machines for work ) it is good enough.

[@leecampbell-vp1fg]

crazy how in the first benchmark he says that the gtx 980ti was being bottlenecked even tho it was at 90 percent were as the cpu was at 30 to 40 consistantly

[@happybuggy1582]

i7 920 with SSD can easily handle office tasks

[@databits]

Encore! More Emmett!

[@acreativeusername9820]

Will this run cs2?

[@BorneoClassical]

i have a dell 435t which has i7 920 in it. but sometimes when i start up the pc, its stuck on balck screen. can someone help me?. running great on my rx570 4gb playing call of the wild. but yeah, sometimes this pc wont load. i have to restart it. then it will display

[@BorneoClassical]

im running it on windows 10

[@R3TR0J4N]

next 2nd.. 4th gen?

[@EMBtech]

Possibly, I know 4th gen is actually still decent

[@D34DxChevy]

@@EMBtechthe 4th gen cpus are the goats

[@mrmichel8659]

Buy a Xeon W3680, the board may handle the similar platform chip, and you will need to get a higher end video card. The 6 core 12 thread chip will make a huge difference at $30.

[@warframedeaths4881]

What OS? Win10?

[@mrmichel8659]

And for sure overclock it to 4.0😁.

[@downundergarage6968]

980 ti is a very powerful gpu for this cpu..

[@hrayz]

The lack of AVX commands means a large selection of games simply won't launch.

[@alilokhd4638]

Maybe you need to give it another Chance with an AMD GPU because of Nvidia drivers bottleneck old CPUs by a lot there are tons of evidence about this

[@ziyaadumar6191]

Test it with a powerful graphic card

[@fabianofigueirasantos]

*I7 860* ou *x3480* são na verdade primeiro, está aí não muito bom para jogos , tente *x3480* a @4GZ.

[@ziyaadumar6191]

The graphic card is bottlenecking the system

[@Ciffer-1998]

why do you think so?

[@RoelCarvajal]

No

[@axdxon5859]

first

[@axdxon5859]

ez

[@cpt_fisto6810]

overclock the cpu to 3.66 on air or 4ghz on liquid and oc the ram to 1488. Thats my setup, paired with a 1660s gpu. GLHF! It's good for high setting gameplay. If i was buying a new rig today though then I would go for a ryzen 7 5800x on a mid budget. Or the 7 7800 x3d on a higher budget.