No Cheap Quad-Core Chips from Intel

[mXpS]

wow, those look awesome.

lets see some ln2 benches....

[Shintai]

i was thinking why does it go from Q9300 to Q9450? would you assume there would be a Q9350 and Q9400?

my guesses:
Q9350 would have 12MB cache but same clockspeed as Q9300
Q9400 would have 6MB cache but same clockspeed as Q9450

kinda like E6300 2MB and E6320 4MB.

Marked segmentation and future products. Nothing logical about marketing

[Hornet331]

Ok im sold. QX9650 here i come.

now i hope nv also releases a flagship card in nov, and im ready for crysis.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Wow I think I just wet my pants.

Thanks for sharing.

Those shots clearly indicates the o/c advantage with 45nm Penryn chips. Even if they're ES samples, Kenstsfield ES never did close to such results. Wonder where avg max stable clock result for Q9450 on air will land at, 3.75~3.9GHz would be nice. I can imagine mobo will be stopping most ppl with 8x multi at higher than that.

[aiya]

Marked segmentation and future products. Nothing logical about marketing

true

looks like there will be a good chance the Q9450 and Q9300 will hit 4GHz on water

[KTE]

C0? Whoa thats been in the works after revision A1 for quite a long time with tweaks and respins then. Can expect high clocks then. What a speedy cycle revision though.

n3n3n69

What temps are you getting with 4400MHz and whats BIOS vcore?

[perkam]

Prices on QX are back to Pentium EE prices btw, check VR.

Perkam

[KTE]

That really sucks! They can do that cus they know the gullible would pay their life away mainly to keep with impressing the crowd



Shamino did get 6GHz out of QX9650 though

[n3n3n69]

C0? Whoa thats been in the works after revision A1 for quite a long time with tweaks and respins then. Can expect high clocks then. What a speedy cycle revision though.

n3n3n69

What temps are you getting with 4400MHz and whats BIOS vcore?

Yeah, the 2.33GHz have too much bugs ...

The temps & vcore are already showed at the screen shots.

[n3n3n69]

Wow I think I just wet my pants.
Wonder where avg max stable clock result for Q9450 on air will land at, 3.75~3.9GHz would be nice. I can imagine mobo will be stopping most ppl with 8x multi at higher than that.

Hope you got extra pants

Yeap, I think it might possible have stable clock up to 3.6GHz ...

[KTE]

The temps & vcore are already showed at the screen shots.

Thanks!
I wanted to confirm that they were accurate.

Any idea what the max temp on any of these chips is?

[n3n3n69]

QX9650 @4.5GHz on air too


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[mXpS]

woah, 4.5 on air! that is sick. what are the voltages?

[Blauhung]

C0? Whoa thats been in the works after revision A1 for quite a long time with tweaks and respins then. Can expect high clocks then. What a speedy cycle revision though.

n3n3n69

What temps are you getting with 4400MHz and whats BIOS vcore?

hehe, and that's not even production stepping, that will be C1

[KTE]

A few more Yorkfield 3GHz ocing tests: http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=1588

[adamsleath]

q9400...and other gap fillers...

Near the third quarter of 2008

presumeably with 8x multi.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/inde...sid=12061&pn=2

[oohms]

ting bricks here.. no point upgrading from my q6600 since the 9450 will be mobo limited at around 3.6 ghz anyway

[dinos22]

too right oohms too right

[3lfk1ng]

Yeah, sadly.

I just hope that the initial release paired with the nicer x48's will be able to push it just a little bit further...

I have X48 coming soon off them also, now they have the bios tweaking sorted for MARS i am sure this board will be solid from the getgo.

It will be rather interesting to see what he can come up with in the coming weeks.

[largon]

In my opinion, Yorkfield has been a huge dissapointment.
I'm actually considering moving back to DC (E8400/E8500) as the multi-locked quads (like Q9450) are almost useless for someone who already has a Kentsfield @ 3.6GHz as they just really don't OC that much better due to FSB wall.

[freeloader]

i was hoping for a $200 quadcore. oh well time will tell.

When chips like the 9450 and 9550 are widely available, you'll be able to grab Q6600 for 200 or less (used).

The 9450 is looking good for me as I'm building another Quad for WCG.

[3lfk1ng]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the price of a new Q6600 floated down to around $200 come April/May.

Currently Intel has a steady grasp on the Quad-core market so they have no reason to compete/lower prices, but once AMD gets their Phenom B3's out, Intel might be a little more competitive with their pricing.

I personally see April/May as the perfect time to buy a quad.
My choice between the Q6600 and the 9450 are still a matter of how well the x48 treats the 9450, although I really do love the low temps and 12mb cache of the 9450

[AliG]

I dunno Drew, I doubt intel will have any price cuts for a while since it makes no sense for them to do so, amd has enough of their own problems, they'd just be cutting their profits if they did so


I would recommend the q6600 simply due to the q9450s having fsb wallls and low mults preventing big ocs, though the e8500s seem to be monster ocers

[71 (Bryan)]

i can freakin wait for the q9450, i really want to finish my pc and get it over with. btw, whats the fsb wall on the q9450? i want atleast 1600 maybe 1800

[3lfk1ng]

Good to see you here Ali... Yeah, I don't see price cuts for another 3-4 months, but I do see them... it's inevitable.

The Wolfdales are no doubt great overclockers. Depending on the performance scaling as opposed to the Q's, those dual cores definitely wouldn't be that bad of an investment... and they may still catch my eye come May.