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Intel Core i7 930 CPU review - busting through 4GHz

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Published: Monday 1st March, 2010 | Author: Tarinder Sandhu
Products: Core i7 930 OC (25/02/10)
Companies: SCAN (All SCAN content), Intel (All Intel content)

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Introduction

Intel has a pre-CeBIT present for the enthusiast. It comes in the form of a new Core i7 chip for the performance-class X58 platform.

Those of you who think it's the much-heralded six-core Core i7 980X CPU will be disappointed - for a short while yet.

Enthusiasts whose wallets don't stretch to the £750-plus for Intel's finest desktop CPU may well rejoice at the news that the chip giant is releasing an upgrade to the ever-popular Core i7 920.

Priced at the same $284 (£215) as the entry-level LGA1366 offering, Intel is quietly pushing the Core i7 930 to retail. Dropping into our labs on a Friday afternoon from the folks at Scan, we take a look at performance against the chip it effectively replaces. We throw in AMD's £137 Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition for good measure.

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Company	Price (exc. VAT)	Price (inc. VAT)	Price Date	Price History
SCAN	£184.17 ( £-5.00)	£211.80	18:00 on Wed 28th Jul 2010	history

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