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Any news on Q9550S ?

So they have a TDP 20W lower than the regular 45nm Quads?

Does this make them like the Q6600 G0 was to the original Q6600?
 
yea probably something like that ^^

* Core 2 Quad Q8200s (2.33GHz, 4MB L2 cache)
* Core 2 Quad Q9400s (2.66GHz, 6MB L2 cache)
* Core 2 Quad Q9550s (2.83GHz, 12MB L2 cache)

2009 q1 that much i know and will be 30 to 50 $ more then originals
 
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Well they might be worth getting. I can't really justify the outlay for the current model but the new ones could save quite a bit of money on energy over the Q6600 I have now.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Well they might be worth getting. I can't really justify the outlay for the current model but the new ones could save quite a bit of money on energy over the Q6600 I have now.
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Wow what a great way of justifying an upgrade :D

Any more news on these? Want confirmation regards overclocking as I thought the Q9550 were already overclocking very well...

I was hoping my E5200 may survive but with buying a GTX280 it wont :(

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
+1 for interest in these.
Not seen them anywhere yet, and I'm looking to get a quad at the end of this week, so probably a little too early. Would be nice though, as it should equate to lower temps/higher clocks.
 
*Bump*

Any sign of these yet? I've been thinking about getting one to replace the Q6600 I have in my shuttle. They look cooler with only 65w and great for my encoding.
 
But on that review it does say that the people who will benefit from them are SFF users, the lower temps can help me turn down the cpu fan and make my pc quieter.

The 9550 does look like the next upgrade for me and I would be able to leave it for 2 or 3 years then, I don't upgrade that often, the 65w version would help my noise and temps, surely that's the whole point of them?
 
The only use I could see for this is that Shuttle with the touchscreen front that requires 65w C2* to work...

Though for most SFF stuff such a high powered CPU would be overkill - to me it was just another low powered C2Q to overclock to hell...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Check out the review of the Q9550s on Anandtech.com. They turned out to be a complete waste of time and money for most people.
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Probably just normal E0 Q9550 which has been only tested to work at slightly lower voltage.
That TDP of original was never even true consumption and meant as quide value for big OEMs so that when they design cooling they can install pretty much any quad core of Yorkfield line without needing to change cooling.
Already fact that different clocked models have same value should tell that TDP rarely has anything to do with consumption of one particular model.

E8500 which is essentially half of Yorkfield and at higher clock speed than Q9550 draws just little above 30W.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_11.html#sect0
 
But on that review it does say that the people who will benefit from them are SFF users, the lower temps can help me turn down the cpu fan and make my pc quieter.
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Thats the whole point of these chips to fit them into smaller form factors, sorry they werent special overclcokers chips :p
 
That seems like a huge price premium though - my E0 9550 is idling at just 27 degrees top according to the bios on my DFI, and I'm running with a small overclock to 3.3ghz. This cpu would run sweet in a sff.
 
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