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strange indeed , Q9300 is 2.5 Ghz and Q9450 is 2.66 Ghz on the intel site
pity it is so expensive lol, otherwise we would know for sure wink.
Personally I'm going to go woth E2160 for now till april price cuts....
should have a nice 9xxx Nvidia or 4xxx ati at around the same time too ;-)
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Originally Posted by G80
E8200 FTW!!
Its half the power, half the cores and half the price of the quad core Q9450.
Even student can afford $160.
And ofcourse you can overclock the bejeebus out of it... if its not a good chip, you can do your own binning... buy a 6-pack for less than a Q97xx.
And as others and I have mentioned before, Wolfdale clock higher fsb, and usually let you get higher overclock. Vast majority of apps you run are not muli-threaded so they would run faster on higher clocked wolfdale.
2/22 and nothing out yet.. what's going on?!
What, nothing from AMD?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vryada
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115037
Soon as New showed them, they disappeared. "This user purchased this item from Newegg.com"
they were in stock for a little over three weeks before they sold out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Donnie27
I was talking about Q9300/Q9450/Q9550. I'm going for the Q9450, but no stores seem to have them available.
Yeah me too, and the dates are all scattered, Tankguys doesn't seem to haveQuote:
Originally Posted by Vryada
an eta anymore on their site for the q9450, and several others say 24:th mars, so god knows
when they'll be available.
For what I've seen, most retailers have the ETA set on 3rd march. Some others show 2 or 3 units in stock, shame they don’t ship worldwide.
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Originally Posted by Vryada
Yeah even that date, which ones have you seen having those few in stock? In the states?
lol real-time pricing & availability
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I know, I called and asked them.Quote:
Originally Posted by #su
Wait, so now folks are in a rush. How long did you guys wait for A64, X2 and now Phenom? You skipped Conroe so why should you even care? At least this is worth waiting for and even in April it will be worth it:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vryada
if i upgrade x3110 ftw 188 bucks is unbeatable
I didn’t skip intels because of amd (I mean, I wasn’t waiting for some “magic recovery/release”). I was just fine with my rig until recently, when it started to struggle with some new games/apps - especially audio stuff that eats cpu like crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Donnie27
Of course it’s worth the wait, but I gotta keep working with audio (because, basically, that’s my job), and therefore, I need a new rig ASAP.
I know there was a great deal of speculation over the last several months about whether you could do a Q9450 on a 680i.
What was the verdict. My search results aren't finding anything 'current'
Well, basically Q9450 is limited by it's low multiplier.
so nobody knows when the Q9450 is going to be out? oh man. i have a customer itching to get a new video edit machine and i would love to put a Q9450 in it and overclock it to the moon. (i wonder what a 3.8ghz Q9450 would do for his render time:D) i would at least like to give him an ETA for the chip. so March or April?
3rd march, they say.
¿What do I say? Get the first Xeon X3350 you see (less demand, same chip).
Oh so these ones are essentially the same? Completely compatible? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vryada
Good luck trying to break the FSB wall. I bet Q9450 (8x333) will have trouble passing 3.4GHz.Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650
3.4GHz is 'only' 425FSB. Considering most P35/X38 boards are capable of 450FSB+... I'd say most Q9450s should break 3.4GHz easily. Beyond 3.6GHz, not so easily. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by largon
overclockers.co.uk have a few wolfdales if anyone is interested.
Yep. socket 775 quad cores, 45 nm.Quote:
Originally Posted by lv_88
I just picked up a Q9550 (C1) stepping and so far I'm pretty happy with it (despite high price tag that is)! I have only had it since the weekend and because of graduate school I havn't spent as much time as I would like testing and tweaking! With that said however I'm currenlty running at 450Mhz x 8.0x and its fairly stable (HyperPI 32M stable, looping 3DMark06, 3+hrs of Prime95 v25.5, AQ3). The only reason I havn't run Prime for longer is due to high NB and CPU temps, they are right on the edge of being too high for my liking (NB=55C-60C & CPU=55C-59C) stock cooling on my Blitz Extreme except for CPU which is watercooled.
If I decided to keep the Blitz Extreme over my DFI UT P35 (I will keep whatever board likes this chip better and allows for more headroom) I will replace the stock heatpipe and NB waterblock and new heatsinks on everything else. In anycase once I get some more testing data together I'll start a new thread and share my results and hopefully get some pointers!
I got this chip from a member here so I don't know when they will actualy be available for retail sale but I'm always amazed that there isn't a well known release date from Intel, this is a big event, lol! Like many have already posted I heard the beginning of March?