The i7 920 WILL NOT work in a P55 Motherboard.

 

very confusing, i'd have to agree with your initial thoughts that a 1366 chip is not going to work in a 1156 socket.....

I'm also new to the world of i5 and i7 so hopefully someone else can clear it up for you but from what i've read the p55 is a new socket type so requires the lga1156 chips.

Edit- There we go Orange Peel seems to have cleared that up

 

When u finally get through try and speak to the same person, and call them a complete muppet hahaha.

the guys here are right the cpu is not compatable with the mobo you have, and the support person u talked to should know that.

Good luck with getting it replaced, im sure they will if u get through to someone that knows anything.

 

yes its fine

 

The 860 will work fine in the P7P55D boards.

i5 - i750 = Core i5 / 1156 Socket - No Hyperthreading, Lynnfield CPU.

i7 - i860 = Core i7 / 1156 Socket - Has Hyperthreading, Lynnfield CPU.

i7 - i870 = Core i7 / 1156 Socket - Has Hyperthreading, Lynnfield CPU.

i7 - 920 = Core i7 / 1366 Socket - Has Hyperthreading, Bloomfield CPU.

Hope that helps

 

Your socket 1156 motherboard will accommodate:

• Core i5 750
• Core i7 860
• Core i7 870

 

the 860 is 100% compatable with the mobo you have.

 

They really should have not called the 860 an i7, it's confusing. They should have called it a 755 or something, the 5 indicating that it supports hyperthreading.

 

It is very confusing glad you got sorted.

 

Got to love intels naming system!! Classing them as i7 purely on whether they have hyper threading was such a bad move! Doing it according to what socket it uses would of made much more sense but Intel seem to have missed that point

But yea, get an 860, that will work fine on a P55 board

 

The naming system makes sense to me! The 750 and the 860 are equivalent, performance-wise, and so they are both classified as i7. The 750 is below the i7 chips, in terms of features/performance, and so it is classified as i5.

 

but they have different features such as dual channel ram and onchip PCI-E lanes....

 

Of course they're not identical. That's why one is 8xx, the other 9xx. But they're roughly equivalent, performance-wise.

Makes sense to me, anyway. Maybe I'm alone.

 

Hang on a sec. Overclockers support system told you:

The asus P55 will work with the i7 920

Then, later told you that the asus P55 will only work with i5 processors

I make that one technical support guy who needs to get out of their store. If you took down their name (I would have), call up, get through to management and tell them that this mans ignorance cost you time and money, and you want the return shipping fee refunded as a result. At the least they'll tell him to learn something before selling hardware to people.

It's doing them a favour. Were I to get through to a fool on their support line, I'd be much less inclined to buy from them. /awaits ban

 

All depends on who you get through to

Good luck with it man. Hope you do report the fellow, or other people will be steered down the same road. It's a subtle point, but its one a hardware salesman needs to get right.