so I will be unboxing at this time the Intel Core i7 quad core processor i7 930
so this is a replacement for the 920 as you may know if you already watched my
unboxing of the OEM 930 which is the
exact same chip but not in a box it's just by itself and the unboxing was very
uninteresting because you just it was that chip and there was no box okay so
why don't we have a look at everything it says about this particular CP you so
first of all we have a frequency of 2.8 GHz then we have socket LGA 6
1366 the i7 930 8 Megs of cache 4.8 qpi
transfer frequency okay uh all of the
information about the batch as well as the serial number is right there so why
don't we get this show on the road and I
can't believe it I still don't have a knife I forgot to get a knife that's okay I'll just I'll just rip the sticker
it's all good see slow going but I'm I'm making it happen here ripping the
sticker step by step step by step trying
not to wreck it too much there we
go all right so there's another UPC code
here not sure what that's for and we'll flip this over and out it comes so the
first thing we will find is the installation instructions as well as the
three-year limited warranty this is a difference between a retail chip and an
oem chip is that a retail chip comes with a three-year warranty whereas an
oem CPU actually I believe it's only a
oneyear warranty and it should be through the retailer or the uh system
integrator that you buy the CPU from so that means that you do not have an Intel
warranty on an oem CPU it also includes an Intel Inside logo label cack panel
right there just like that it's all shiny and nice I really like these case
badge stickers next we will find who
look at that it's like wow okay that's bad um why don't we look at the heat
sink first and we'll just kind of sweep that over there okay so the heat
sink looks like an 80 mil fan it's a four pin pwm design it's your your bone
stock standard Intel box cooler for the
uh 1366 socket they haven't really made
any changes to speak of um it has blades
that spin like this and if they're
plugged in backwards I guess they would also spin like this okay uh you have the
four push pin design so that means that when you're installing it it should be
turned this way that way and then when
you want to remove it you turn it in the direction of the arrow and then pop it
up okay so that's pretty straightforward on the bottom you'll find a copper slug
in the middle not a real slug like a like a copper piece of metal not like an
oozing thing that goes across and then you will find thermal compound
pre-applied it's actually pretty good thermal compound I tested this against I
think it was um mx1 Arctic Cooling mx1
and they were so close in performance I couldn't believe it but this is good
stuff that's on here uh okay and then you find a CPU
which looks just like every other 1366 CPU except for the writing on the top
which I'm not sure if you'll actually even be able to read through the camera
but you'll try Okay so that says i7 930
and then at the bottom of the CPU you will find no markings whatsoever but
what you will find is pads so those are
the contact pads that make contact with the PIN in the CPU in the CPU in the
motherboard see pins CPUs used to have pins and that's what makes me say pins
when I'm talking about a CPU quite quite frequently but now it's motherboards
that have pins and CPUs that have pads whereas before the motherboard had a
socket and now it doesn't really I mean it still has a socket like it has um
like a lever and a little like clamp that goes down but it's more like it's
more like a clam going over over a CPU
so basically if you want a CPU mounting guide it would be like this but on a
motherboard thanks for checking out my unboxing