Now, just over 10 years ago, Intel released the very first Kwai seven process of the 79 20.

This was a four courtship with hyper threading based on the new at the time the Halem Architectural.

These chips were designed to fit the 13 66 socket for which the motherboards are still expensive.

Even to this day, the 9 20 was considered the mainstream option, coming in at $284 with the performance by 79 40 enthusiastic 965 extreme costing 562 a $999 respectively.

As with any big new process release, these chips drew a lot of attention, and those whose pockets were deep enough jumped at the chance of owning one so that they could put together a powerful new gaming rig.

The I 79 20 can still handle itself pretty well when paired with a modern GPU.

But the story of the ice 79 20 isn't a controversy free one.

Back in 2010 a few knew it.

Customers were shocked when what they thought was a brand new I seven turned up looking like this, a fake chip paired with a fake heat sink packaged inside a box containing spelling mistakes.

As with everything in this Internet age, the story quickly blew up.

But when this happens, it's fair to assume that the facts are always going to be a priority.

Various websites wanted to be the first to report on this, and so came the headlines, finger pointing and a handful of videos of customers.

Unboxing there hookey IE seven's.

At first, it was reported that a certain supplier who shall not be directly named due to their now proven innocents, were responsible for shipping the 300 Dodger units to new egg in the first place.

This supply, I made it worse for themselves because they were issuing cease and desist orders to the sites who had reported the news.

So, of course, they just wanted to clear their name.

These sites had, of course, being depending on unreliable sources for information.

But then again, it was the only information anyone really had it the time to their credit, Everything I've read about new egg makes it seem like they did a fantastic job of rectifying this situation, sending out replacements or refunds where necessary and taking the matter extremely seriously along the way.

They later issued a final statement.

In regards to these IE seven's see another company who again will remain anonymous told new egg that they had mistakenly shipped to them demo units.

Although demo and counterfeit obviously two different things and so tires were swiftly cut.

So ending the fake Ice seven saga who really knows how or why new egg ended up with 300 fake I sevens in the first place?

I guess we'll never really know.

And I guess no one will really know either why the company who sent them to them did so in the first place.

Unless, of course, they weren't wise to it.

Now it's a very interesting back story, and now I want to take a quick look at modern I 79 20 performance.

So let's pair it with a modern 10 70 see how it holds up.

So I haven't tested many games because if you are a frequent viewer of the channel, you may remember I checked out the ice 79 50 not long ago.

And to be honest, performance is quite similar.

The ice 79 20 hit is overcooked a little bit to 3.4 gigahertz and can still handle itself pretty well even when tackling some of the newest games out there.

Compared with this 10 70 now, it's probably not a fantastic idea to pair these two right off the bat.

For example, go out and purchase.

Ah, nice 79 20 based system and sticker 10 70 in here.

But just know that if you do, you should still be able to play all of your favorite games.

There will be some instances where the CPU does bottleneck on vice versa, but it really is a decent experience here.

I'm using medium settings, but you could certainly push things a little higher, but I was aiming for 60 F ps throughout.

I have as well paired the I seven with 12 Gig's off DDR 3 13 33 megahertz ran anyway.

All that's left to say is that I hope you enjoyed this video.

This was more focused on that little sort of controversy regarding the ice.

79 20 as I came across this old article when just generally doing a little bit of research the other day.

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