Intel Core i7 930 Retail Processor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so I will be unboxing at this time the Intel Core i7 quad core processor i7 930
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so this is a replacement for the 920 as you may know if you already watched my
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unboxing of the OEM 930 which is the
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exact same chip but not in a box it's just by itself and the unboxing was very
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uninteresting because you just it was that chip and there was no box okay so
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why don't we have a look at everything it says about this particular CP you so
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first of all we have a frequency of 2.8 GHz then we have socket LGA 6
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1366 the i7 930 8 Megs of cache 4.8 qpi
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transfer frequency okay uh all of the
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information about the batch as well as the serial number is right there so why
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don't we get this show on the road and I
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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
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it's all good see slow going but I'm I'm making it happen here ripping the
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sticker step by step step by step trying
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not to wreck it too much there we
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go all right so there's another UPC code
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here not sure what that's for and we'll flip this over and out it comes so the
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first thing we will find is the installation instructions as well as the
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three-year limited warranty this is a difference between a retail chip and an
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oem chip is that a retail chip comes with a three-year warranty whereas an
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oem CPU actually I believe it's only a
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oneyear warranty and it should be through the retailer or the uh system
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integrator that you buy the CPU from so that means that you do not have an Intel
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warranty on an oem CPU it also includes an Intel Inside logo label cack panel
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right there just like that it's all shiny and nice I really like these case
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badge stickers next we will find who
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look at that it's like wow okay that's bad um why don't we look at the heat
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sink first and we'll just kind of sweep that over there okay so the heat
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sink looks like an 80 mil fan it's a four pin pwm design it's your your bone
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stock standard Intel box cooler for the
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uh 1366 socket they haven't really made
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any changes to speak of um it has blades
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that spin like this and if they're
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plugged in backwards I guess they would also spin like this okay uh you have the
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four push pin design so that means that when you're installing it it should be
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turned this way that way and then when
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you want to remove it you turn it in the direction of the arrow and then pop it
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up okay so that's pretty straightforward on the bottom you'll find a copper slug
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in the middle not a real slug like a like a copper piece of metal not like an
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oozing thing that goes across and then you will find thermal compound
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pre-applied it's actually pretty good thermal compound I tested this against I
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think it was um mx1 Arctic Cooling mx1
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and they were so close in performance I couldn't believe it but this is good
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stuff that's on here uh okay and then you find a CPU
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which looks just like every other 1366 CPU except for the writing on the top
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which I'm not sure if you'll actually even be able to read through the camera
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but you'll try Okay so that says i7 930
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and then at the bottom of the CPU you will find no markings whatsoever but
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what you will find is pads so those are
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the contact pads that make contact with the PIN in the CPU in the CPU in the
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motherboard see pins CPUs used to have pins and that's what makes me say pins
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when I'm talking about a CPU quite quite frequently but now it's motherboards
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that have pins and CPUs that have pads whereas before the motherboard had a
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socket and now it doesn't really I mean it still has a socket like it has um
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like a lever and a little like clamp that goes down but it's more like it's
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more like a clam going over over a CPU
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so basically if you want a CPU mounting guide it would be like this but on a
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motherboard thanks for checking out my unboxing