{"id":811,"date":"2017-07-23T01:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T01:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tech-g.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2025-02-04T05:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:43:47","slug":"i7-930-vs-i7-980-180-faster-at-least-theoretically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2017\/07\/23\/i7-930-vs-i7-980-180-faster-at-least-theoretically\/","title":{"rendered":"I7 930 VS I7 980, 180% faster, at least theoretically !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update: After putting away this machine for many many years, I revisited it in 2025, had a few issues with ram and bios, here is the <a href=\"\/blog\/2025\/02\/03\/ancient-gigabyte-ga-x58a-ud3r-v2-troubles\/\">updated version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I upgrading my I7 930 to an I7 980 worth it ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer is probably YES, the I7 980 at the time of writing cost me $135 used on ebay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there are 2 extra cores in the CPU, so it is like having an extra dual core computer to share the RAM and any other resources, even without wasting more electrical power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also the newer Gulftown architecture (32nm Lithography), compared to the older Bloomfield (45nm Lithography)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how much computing power did i gain for this database server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i7 930: 3GHz * 8 = 24 total at turbo speed<br>\ni7 980: 3.6GHz * 12 = 43.2 total at turbo speed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is 180% of the original<br>\nalmost double the computing power for 100 dollars !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make this more interesting, many are reporting the with the new bios update, the GA-X58A-UD3R will allow for 48GB of ram, not 24, I will be trying that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: After putting away this machine for many many years, I revisited it in 2025, had a few issues with ram and bios, here is the updated version I upgrading my I7 930 to an I7 980 worth it ? The answer is probably YES, the I7 980 at the time of writing cost me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}