Q9300, Q9450 and Q9550 Pre-Order

[[MyIS]Dan]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/search...arch=yorkfield

Very yummy. Got my Q9450 pre-ordered.

[Scinto]

if you want to save the pennys

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...Thumbnails=yes

[Oli]

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves

[=98=]

Wait for a later and greater revision IMO.

[Scinto]

theres going to be these but limited stock iirc, and then later in the year Nehalm (sp?) which require a new motherboard.

Anyways i skipped the Q6600's for these, so not so bad after all with a nice mobo to support them.

[Verzili]

nice im getting a new build on the go soon,so i think i will grab one of them :)

[sgt.collins]

u kiddin me? i just got my q6600

[solofowaffles]

Im saving up for nehalem already :)

[Scinto]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...uad-q9300.html

we shall wait for a Q9450

[Scinto]

hmm i still dont know if the OcUK £234 Arrival 10/3/08 is worth the extra compared to Scan £218 Arrival 19/3/08,

[[MyIS]Dan]

OcUK have always had stock of new stuff on release day, I'm willing to put the extra £20 or so towards that. Plus I pre-orderd mine within two hours of them going up so fingers crossed I'll get one next day.

[looqas]

This makes me little anxious. Quoted from the xbitlabs review of the Q9300

However, Intel played a mean trick on enthusiasts when preparing their Core 2 Quad Q9300 and other CPUs from the same family for launch. This may totally ruin overclocking attractiveness of the new solutions. The thing is that Yorkfield processors, unlike their predecessors from the Kentsfield family, work with 333MHz FSB. And it automatically lowers the default clock frequency multipliers.

Thus, Core 2 Quad Q9300 with the nominal frequency of 2.5GHz featuring a 7.5x clock multiplier. It means that you will have to significantly increase the front side bus frequency in order to achieve any noticeable results during overclocking. For example, in order to clock Core 2 Quad Q9300 at 4GHz, which seems to be quite attainable for this processor theoretically, the FSB should be increased to unreal 533MHz. I said unreal, because none of the existing mainboards can work with quad-core processors at super-high FSB frequency like that. Numerous overclocking experiments show that the maximum FSB frequency contemporary mainboards can reach when working with quad-core processors and traditional cooling systems is 460-470MHz. That is why the typical overclocking result for Core 2 Quad Q9300 will be around 3.4-3.5GHz. Further frequency increase will be limited by the mainboard and the chipset, but not by the CPU that can definitely do better.

It just might be that 4GHz is out of reach for Q9450 also.

[Scinto]

the keen overclockers will stick to the Q6600's, im not bothered if a chip doesnt surpass 4Ghz you wont see a difference in games it only appears in 3dMark which doesnt account for much apart from boosting ones e-ego.

[Sniper1432]

Overclocks AMD a little more...

[[MyIS]Dan]

Overclocks AMD a little more...

Have fun with that.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=274661 I'd be happy with four cores at 3.4'ish, hopfully my Mobo will go up to 460MHz Bus. Nice to see hes using same speed ram as mine.