Quote Originally Posted by LowRun View Post
That argument doesn't hold much water as this is exactly what they did for C2D with early OC leaks all over the web.
I think that was needed at that time, AMD was on top, If Intel does the same right now many people willing to pay for an extreme version will hold on until Nehalem comes, other than that Intel could make a different strategy showing how it does overclock which I think the efforts would not bring any benefit for them.

Penryn does overclock greatly and many people know it. So if we overclock a Penryn like a QX9770, it may be possible to achieve at 5.0Ghz. That would be equal the performance of a 4.0Ghz Nehalem by my calculations. As far as we know is that Nehalem X versions will come at 3.2 but this is not yet confirmed, it may be coming with a higher frequency but not less I reckon.

It is better to gain profit now rather than later when AMD makes its marketing actions and destabilize Intel sales for something not concrete. AMD loves doing that.

There are many other reasons too like many people do not care about overclocking and buy it to leave at default frequency, some of them have in mind that Nehalem can give like 30% over Penryn but some of them can not wait, 5 months away yet. It depends the situation anyway.

I would wait to see how it overclocks, if Nehalem does not overclock well I would opt for a Q9450 given it can achieve 4.0Ghz, motherboard is another factor as well. Nehalem has good features like hyperthreading, Penryn does not. Penryn does overclock better given the circumstances that we do not know much about Nehalem's overclocking capabilities, but needs a good phase cooling. It is hard, many reasons pondering any buyer.

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