When did these land?

[Mr. Smith]

The q9450 and 9550 are around, about £250 and £350 respectivley. Have a google.

If I hadn't just got new ram, a new gfx card and probably a new case along with vista and some hdd's I'd get one...

Even toying with the e8500 (faster IRL than @ games than quads see)

Anyone grabbing a new quad? I'm prety duty bound to get a 45nm quad (benching) and I'm itching to get some dice and I want a phase... Urrrgh I just haemorrhaged money.

I just wondered what our members thought about the new 45nm dual and quad cores and if they are getting one.

 

[FarFarAway]

I'll get a q9450 at some point in the future I expect

 

[Bungral]

I shall be buying one of them in the States in May! I'm on E6600 at the mo so it makes sense for me, but it also means a new mobo.. Also depending on what GFX cards are out at the time I might buy a new one.

Its E8500 in those graphs that are beating the Q9300 in games.. You reckon it would still beat the Q9450 or Q9550?

 

[Ham]

Ill be flogging anything and everything i can to get one once ive played with my Q6600 enough...

 

[Bungral]

Cheapo!

Dunno what they are like though.

http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php?products_id=67485&source=froogle

 

[Mr. Smith]

Kikacrap never have stock. Ever. They always advertise cheaper but never get stock!

q9450 can be found in stock for £220... Tempted to flog the q6600, what are they worth?

 

[Bungral]

Kikacrap never have stock. Ever. They always advertise cheaper but never get stock!

q9450 can be found in stock for £220... Tempted to flog the q6600, what are they worth?

Lol I say it every time.. You crack me up..

What are they worth yeah? NEED THE BEST!!!!

 

[Mr. Smith]

I'm wondering if the upgrade is worth it.

The new 45nm run cooler and clock well, the extra cache is nice... I was hoping for some opinions/general discussion on the actual architecture... Real life gains etc.

 

[Ham]

architecture is just a shrunk cornore iirc.

And 4ghz for 24/7 use is enough of a rl gain for anyone tbh .

 

[Mr. Smith]

4ghz+ on the 8400/8500 seems common.

Not seen any q9450/9550 OC'in... Has anyone?

 

[Rastalovich]

Depends if the 4g on the new cpus gives the same performance as 3.5 on the old cpus.

Seen any superpi scores of e8400/q9450 @ 4gz killing say a q6600 @ 3.5 ?

 

[Luigi]

But.. look at them, the best multi you can get is 8.5, which means even if your lucky enough to get a chip that can handle 500mhz fsb you will top out at 4250mhz... not much more than a q6600

 

[kataras]

Seen any superpi scores of e8400/q9450 @ 4gz killing say a q6600 @ 3.5 ?

these are from css forum im mod on:

1. - 11.625s - Rokevicius - Intel C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz, Titan Vanessa, Corsair xms2-6400 2Gb c5 ddr2-800@890, Asus P5kc.

2. - 12.640s - NoRoggeR - Intel C2Q Q6600 @4.05GHz (G0), Asus P5B "Vanilla" vdrop mod, 2x1GB Corsair XMS2 800 @900MHz CL5.

to get a chip that can handle 500mhz fsb you will top out at 4250mhz... not much more than a q6600

you'd be damn lucky man if you had 24/7 stable q6600 running at 4ghz

 

[Bungral]

Depends if the 4g on the new cpus gives the same performance as 3.5 on the old cpus.

Seen any superpi scores of e8400/q9450 @ 4gz killing say a q6600 @ 3.5 ?

http://translate.google.com/transla...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

Doesn't have the new duels in it though.

 

[Rastalovich]

these are from css forum im mod on:

1. - 11.625s - Rokevicius - Intel C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz, Titan Vanessa, Corsair xms2-6400 2Gb c5 ddr2-800@890, Asus P5kc.

2. - 12.640s - NoRoggeR - Intel C2Q Q6600 @4.05GHz (G0), Asus P5B "Vanilla" vdrop mod, 2x1GB Corsair XMS2 800 @900MHz CL5.

you'd be damn lucky man if you had 24/7 stable q6600 running at 4ghz

That would make alot of sense actually.

E8400 doing a single core job does clock for clock the same superpi as the x9650. I imagine the q9450 does too.

 

[Luigi]

but you also need the top quad £360 off quid to get that kind of speed. the q6600 equivilant runs a 7x multi IIRC which means it would be pretty hard to beat a q6600

 

[kataras]

but you also need the top quad £360 off quid to get that kind of speed. the q6600 equivilant runs a 7x multi IIRC which means it would be pretty hard to beat a q6600

Multipliers:

Q6600 - 9

Q9300 - 7.5

Q9450 - 8

Q9550 - 8.5

Q9650 - 9

The thing you dont realize (*looks at your sign and doesnt understand why*) that not all q6600 will work stable at 4ghz even under water. however q9450 i see hitting 4ghz even on air cooler plus who wouldnt want more cache (12mb) for and extra, what 50 quid more than q6600, which certainly affects speed.

 

[Luigi]

but what im trying to say is theres little point moving to one of these from a q6600..