Intel's 45nm Prices & Performance

[safan80]

$530 for a q9550 not bad.

[Don_Dan]

Yorkie at 3000mhz is damned close to a Q6600 at 3500mhz..

That would be a nice boost for my daily production. Have you already seen some numbers?

And if I then send my E6600 into retirement in a small server/cruncher...

[MotF Bane]

Wow, I wish I hadn't bought my Blood-Iron board.

Never seen a x.5 multiplier though.

[Don_Dan]

Never seen a x.5 multiplier though.

I think Intel had them on the Pentium 3 for the last time.

[Yoxxy]

Couple of crunchers on the XS team are running A1 silicone Penryn. 7x333. Oced to 460-470x7

[BrownTown]

Man, I dunno about the fields and such, but something must be going right if they can sell a dual core at 3.0G for under 200$, I mean that pretty much implies to me that getting that speed is a cakewalk for their 45nm process. I think that will definitely be my CPU of choice, I still cannot see any remotely convincing reason to move to quad core anytime soon for my computing needs.

[Don_Dan]

Couple of crunchers on the XS team are running A1 silicone Penryn. 7x333.

OK, I see. Thanks! I hope that they will launch as soon as possible. And even more important to me is, that they have to run well on my Striker, because I don't want to change my mobo.

[Yoxxy]

They will work with Striker.

[Movieman]

Couple of crunchers on the XS team are running A1 silicone Penryn. 7x333. Oced to 460-470x7

A4's

[Slay0r]

E8400 is the only one I like there....Q9450 would have been nice at 9 multi.

My thoughts exactly .

[Cracker]

I see a Q9450 in my future.

[Don_Dan]

They will work with Striker.

Thanks! That was exactly what I wanted to hear! If they'd only publish this promised 1400 bios version... but that's another topic.

A4's

[DTU_XaVier]

I might just have to go quad next year... Oh, and don't forget the cheap-as-chips RAM... 4? 8gigs? I'll take it

'08 promises to be another great year...

Best Regards

[Yakyb]

hmm would 4.5ghz be acheivable on water for the 9650 for 24/7 if so ill definately be interested

[DFI pit bull]

Nice boost in HL2 & SS2. And this chip runs cooler, especially good for the folks who run on air, great!!

[The_Beast]

sweet

[XS Janus]

I have 4K euros ($5K) planed for my new little monster. Is it enough for:
- OC-able Skulltrail mainboard
- 2x 3+GHz Harpertowns
- 8x1GB FB-DIMM DDR2-800
- 2x8800GTX
- watter cooling for the CPUs, GPUs and the northbridge
- 2xWD Raptor
- 2x1TB Hitachi
- Very big and nice case
- 1KW PSU

Nice plan but I think you will get borked by the fb-dimm limit

PS does anybody knows what software are they using for 1080p mpeg2-mpeg4 conversion test??
Yorkie scores over >80% in it. And that alone is worth buying on or two

[Obscured]

Ok. I know that all ASUSes P965 and nForce 650/680 will support new Wolfdales and Yorkfields.
And what about other mainboard vendors? (not mention all Bearlakes)

[vudoodoodoo]

Q9450. :drool:

[Frank M]

PS does anybody knows what software are they using for 1080p mpeg2-mpeg4 conversion test??
Yorkie scores over >80% in it. And that alone is worth buying on or two

Take into consideration that it's DivX with SSE4, which Conroe lacks.
Hence the great advantage.

[Kingcarcas]

Anyone know why HL2 always gets the biggest boost?

[MrChubz]

Hopefully the 450 will be in the 300-350$ range. If it isn't, I'm gonna' need to start a lemon-aid stand or something.

[PanteraGSTK]

I have 4K euros ($5K) planed for my new little monster. Is it enough for:
- OC-able Skulltrail mainboard
- 2x 3+GHz Harpertowns
- 8x1GB FB-DIMM DDR2-800
- 2x8800GTX
- watter cooling for the CPUs, GPUs and the northbridge
- 2xWD Raptor
- 2x1TB Hitachi
- Very big and nice case
- 1KW PSU

Too me that is too much. It is what you pay for performance. The way dx10 games have been going were going to need that much power to play at a decent framerate.

[Start]

AMD better deliver something worthwhile, or I know what is going in my board in January.

[perkam]

Interesting...not that much of a boost in most cases, but still impressive considering the price range.

Edit: I would add a $100 to those prices as they are unreasonably low.

Compare the similar clocked chips on the market today haven't come down in price to those levels, and the numbering systems on these chips make them sound like they completely eclipse the E6000s series, so get ready for some major price gouging

Perkam