kataras showing off.... yorkfield here i come :D

[kataras]

just wanted literally to show off the Q9450 i purchased from ebay. got it for 250 quid, well yeah it is engineering sample but tbh, i dont really give a cr0p

didnt come packaged too well or safely, but it did the job

click for higher rez

im so happy, gonna do some benching soon, gotta overclock

out of it. ohh and btw, yes it is running on the Gigabyte GA-P965-DS3 with the latest bios​

 

[FarFarAway]

Nice mate, gonna submit a few to our bench team?

 

[Luigi]

nice, enginering samples are normally better i believe.

 

[Bungral]

Running a touch warm

 

[kataras]

nice, enginering samples are normally better i believe.

dont think they are mate, since its B1 stepping and i think the retail one's gonna be C1, which means less heat and better overclockability.

Nice mate, gonna submit a few to our bench team?

heh, i do have a gtx, so yeah i see why not

Running a touch warm

haha, yer software doesnt seem to recognize temps too well. ps, im on air...

 

[Hatman]

I had seen this too and had questioned if it had an unlocked multi, was told no so didn't bid.

Hope it clocks well

 

[inonefly]

looking forward for some oc results

 

[Mr. Smith]

Ouch - £250 for a x8 multi... Surely q6600 would have been better, cheaper, clock higher... Fair enough though dude.

Hope it does well for you

 

[kataras]

Ouch - £250 for a x8 multi... Surely q6600 would have been better, cheaper, clock higher... Fair enough though dude.

well, its always has been to have/want more than you need tbh bought q9450 mainly because it had 12meg cache, 45nm runs cooler, and sse4.1 functions, since i do

load of movie encoding/decoding... so yeah, thought why not spend another 100quid and get this instead of q6600.

btw, is photobucket down to anyone else, or is it just me?