Yorkfields!... get your Yorkfields!

[Duke{CLR}]

I don't know how long this has been here but here it is.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-NA-_-NA-_-NA

[BlackArrow]

ohhhh toys. I love toys.

[Duke{CLR}]

ohhhh toys. I love toys.

I am holding out for the Q9450.

[CarbonFire]

I am holding out for the Q9450.

Good idea. This is the low-low end Quad core, with initial tests putting it barely above the Q6600 (even less when taking overclocking into account). That 6mb cache (vs 12mb for the higher models) is sort of an Achilles heal for the architecture. Save your pennies, and go for the faster, more overclockable higher-end models.

Q9450/Q9550 FTW

[BlackArrow]

Although I must say that I have this urge to do two Wolfdales at once. Just a bit o' fantasy.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117164

Maybe one day soon.

[Duke{CLR}]

Although I must say that I have this urge to do two Wolfdales at once. Just a bit o' fantasy.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117164

Maybe one day soon.

Although expensive its cheaper the arranging two "dates" from the Empire club for an hour or two.

@Carbon I hope the Q9450s OC like the E6600s. I hope to run mine @ 3.8.

[Zantheus]

Although expensive its cheaper the arranging two "dates" from the Empire club for an hour or two.

@Carbon I hope the Q9450s OC like the E6600s. I hope to run mine @ 3.8.

You should have no prolems getting it there I mean Ive taken my Q6600 to 3.7 so I can see you getting 4 and stable...jus get a kick butt HS and u'll prob need a good chipset cooler for ur Southbridge

[CarbonFire]

You should have no prolems getting it there I mean Ive taken my Q6600 to 3.7 so I can see you getting 4 and stable...jus get a kick butt HS and u'll prob need a good chipset cooler for ur Southbridge

Umm....Well, keep in mind that the non-extreme Intel CPUs are multiplier locked, so you are at the mercy of the multiplier as to the max overclock you can achieve. In this case, the Q9300 has a 7X multiplier, while the Q9450 has an 8x and the Q9550 has an 8.5x

Of course, the extreme chips are multiplier unlocked, so you can overclock the crap out of those things with the most exotic cooling solutions you can think of. The locked ones are going to rely heavily on your RAM and Motherboard (and good cooling on the NORTH bridge, where the memory control resides) for proper overclocking results.

So expect to spend well on decent RAM and a top-of-the-line mobo if you want to get the best overclocking results. You could change the ratio of memory to clock speed, but you're dealing with diminishing returns there (faster processor but slower memory)

[Zantheus]

The locked ones are going to rely heavily on your RAM and Motherboard (and good cooling on the NORTH bridge, where the memory control resides) for proper overclocking results.

ur right lol was a typo mah bad

[Duke{CLR}]

Well it looks like I was wrong. I am shooting for 3.6 Ghz base on this chart. I am hopping to run my RAM a 900MHz. I don't want to fry anything expensive. T

[CarbonFire]

Well it looks like I was wrong. I am shooting for 3.6 Ghz base on this chart. I am hopping to run my RAM a 900MHz. I don't want to fry anything expensive. T

What mobo/RAM do you have again? If your motherboard supports the new quad cores, it's likely it will support the higher clock speed, though not necessarily with your current RAM configuration. A good set of DDR2 1066 seems to be running just shy of $100, so take that into consideration.

Personally, I'm getting real tempted with these new chips coming out to upgrade. I was going to wait till the fall (~18 months since my last build), but these are looking tantalizing and RAM prices are pretty sweet ATM. As for overclocking, I have my eyes on these sticks (or something similar):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220282

With the right motherboard, should be able to get me to 4 Ghz .... AND BEYOOOOOOOND

[Duke{CLR}]

I recently took advantage of the EVGA upgrade form 680ito 780i for $90.00 US deal. In the table below The * are supposed to be the limit of the MB. I have Corsair XMS2 RAM that has been known to OC up to 1000 without issues. So I figure running at 3.6 with those speeds will satisfy the OC urge in me.

My wife wants me to build a new rig for my stepdaughters birthday. That is in the beginning of May. I'm going to take some parts out of my rig and the RAM is one item that I may upgrade. It will all depend on what available at the time.

I have also toyed with the idea of just building a whole new machine from scratch and giving my current one for the stepdaughter but that seems a bit wasteful. I would like to throw a rig together that has a lot of ESA parts in it I will likely get a new CPU/RAM/CASE and PSU for me.

[juneau]

$299 (?150) for a Q9300! Nice!!!

I'm going to go check just how much they are for us.

edit: ?199.99 ($400) god damn rip of britain!). Over $500 for the Q9450.

[darth_nevus]

i still fail to see the hype with the Quad core processors. especially when an X3110 is such a killer deal. but its about time to see intel bringing them to the market!

[CarbonFire]

i still fail to see the hype with the Quad core processors. especially when an X3110 is such a killer deal. but its about time to see intel bringing them to the market!

I think it's in anticipation of what will be coming, rather than what is out now. You're right Darth, unless a program is explicitly going to use more than 2 cores (or even more than 1 for that matter ), the E8400 is a better value for similar performance (and usually better overclocking). But as more programs become multi-threaded to take advantage of these extra cores, the quads will increasingly become the better choice.

And we'll see more test like these:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3127&p=7