Intel's 45nm Prices & Performance

[dogsx2]

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

Any E6850 will do 3.8-4.0+ for only $281 retail box shipped. An E6600 is still $226 shipped. New is cheaper.

[JVguest]

I've been following Intel Core 2 duo/Quad prices and the prices are dropping off. That signals a new (faster) CPU is going to be released, as I don't understand why Intel would cut prices otherwise.

[Eastcoasthandle]

Hmm, I wonder if they have a 1600 FSB in the works

[Tibu]

Well well well... looks like I made a good decision on not upgrading till Q1 2008.

[ColonelCain]

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

Nice! The lower power consumption makes it very attractive for 24/7 use as well.
If I can, I'll be getting a 9450 for a F@H server.

[dogsx2]

Well well well... looks like I made a good decision on not upgrading till Q1 2008.

Naw, you missed out on a lot of fun.

[frankR]

Me wants Q9450 please ! :drool:

4 Ghz on blow.

[`danny]

I planned on saving every penny I earn for college next year but it's going to be very hard in not selling my E6420 and getting a Q9450

[clayton]

Huuuuuuge improvements in games!
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Weed bubblers

[evoic]

Um.

Where do I place my order for the E8400?
3Ghz, 45nm, x9 multi, $183 ? ? ?

[Spawne32]

Um.

Where do I place my order for the E8400?
3Ghz, 45nm, x9 multi, $183 ? ? ?

do you DARE?

[Metroid]

With the drop in heat output I think you'll see stable 4ghz systems on air for 24/7 use..

I was thinking about that too, with a lower heat output coming from it. It will be easy to leave 24/7 crunching at 4Ghz.

Q9450 is the best deal so far in this chart, much better than E6600 was last year.

[zakelwe]

I'm still not convinced that quad core will be best for the whole of 2008 and so I fall into the E8400 as the best choice from those options. Cheap cost and 9 multi. I really like the 9 multi for general 24/7 stuff as it matches well with CL4 6400 DDR2 chips which are not very expensive. 9x400=3.6Ghz which all E8400's should do with ease. All the money saved on the chip and memory and motherboard can then be pumped into the larger monitor and fast graphics card.

A nice bang for the buck system would be

E8400 running at 9x400
4GB 6400CL4 DDR2
Cheap P35 or similar motherboard
24inch LCD
Perhaps the new 2900Pro ( if you can get your hands on one).

Interesting to note the equivalent of my $999 Conroe X6800 is soon to be $183 and is improved with more cache with the E8400 .. such is progress

Regards

Andy

[dinos22]

Um.

Where do I place my order for the E8400?
3Ghz, 45nm, x9 multi, $183 ? ? ?

i know EEK

hopefully these will have better FSB

[KTE]

E8400 preferred here too. Hoping the x9 multi is stable both summer/winter temps and error free while at 24/7 3.6GHz-4GHz. Or it'd be a waste to upgrade from a C2D.

Prices should be retailed higher than that, I would think about 100 more actually, especially within first 3-4 weeks of demand. Depends when they get them out.

[Solarfall]

those look like really nice prises.. wow i can actually afford to buy few of em with out having to resort selling my organs

[Brother Esau]

I'm good and waiting on Dual Barcelona server set up 2X 55w

[naokaji]

Q9450 for 316$ *starts looking for the queue to order*

definitly a winner in case those prices arent too far off....

[ChaosMinionX]

whoa, better pricing than I had imagined.

Definitely will be picking one of these up

[strange|ife]

i would say the q9450 is the sweet spot, just a few more bucks, and we all know some retailers will have them for 280, and the 6m cache quad for prolly 240, after the first month.

i see alot of 4ghz standard rigs before xmas.

my q6600 will be my main proc till late 2009 though, i swore it on myself! not to spend more on my gaming machine

although one of these dual core penryns will be going in my ageing K8 htpc for sure

[RPGWiZaRD]

While I don't have any probs with that the best steppings of Q9450 perhaps might be able to handle 4GHz even on highend air or wc, I think mobos will have a harder time being stable at speeds like 8x500 for example, I have a hard time believing that will be a common stable quad core FSB. So yea I see the reason why the 8.5x & 9x quad is so much expensier. For dual core 8x is just about enough or for "surfing on the wave of your mobo fsb limit" for most ppl with a P35 board for example but with quad a 8.5x/9x multi would be nice for a quad core with good overclockability if you're that person that wants to overclock to the max and wanna take the advantage of the overclocking benefit of the new CPU series lineup. Isn't like 465~480 where Kentsfield usually tops out on P35 mobos with non extreme cooling setups? I pray for that Penryn somehow would allow easier overclocking of quads or put less stress on the mobo so that the the typical FSB wall of quads would rise from let's say 470~480 to sth more like 500~510. That would be nice but I doubt it but I'm always allowed to dream.

[Blasar]

Q9450 for 316$ *starts looking for the queue to order*

definitly a winner in case those prices arent too far off....

True.

But let´s just see what AMD has to say about it.

Then, in January i decide what to put im my new rig... "Penryn+X38/48" or "Phenom+RD790"...nice dillema to me...

[BulldogPO]

Q9450 for me

[Brother Esau]

Me thinks Intel is Scared

[Obscured]

I'm thinking about purchasing a cheap ASUS P5B-E or P5B plus to install Q9450 later on it. Sorta proceeding upgrade from E6400 to Yorkfield.