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Penryn Release Dates and Pricings

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So you can get a rough idea of the prices of the Penryns, I found this useful article, them Quads look tasty ;)

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Sorry if this has been posted before.
 
I would hang fire and wait for confirmed benchmarks, as the low multi is going to limit your overclock if your FSB isn't upto it.

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Well these still have an FSB of 1333, OCing shouldn't be to bad.

I don't think I'd overclock one yet, would love to see benchmark results and tested overclocks though.
 
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Personally to long to wait, and whats with the 6Mb cache over 4 cores (1.50 Mb/core)

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Personally to long to wait, and whats with the 6Mb cache over 4 cores (1.50 Mb/core)

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Hopefully that'll change :)
And that's only the cheapest quads.

Also why would higher starting FSB be bad, it'll make sure that "average" people have better memory bandwidth, and a faster system, when not overclocking.
Besides, MOBOs are hitting crazy FSB counts these days, and it'll also improve.
 
I hope this isn’t deemed to be any kind of hijack but I’m curious how much benefit many are likely to see with these CPU’s.

Am I right in thinking that for most the benefits gained from the incremental improvements in CPU design, including the Penryn, are normally relatively modest in terms of overall system performance.

If you are due to upgrade then they will be welcome but if not the gain in performance is unlikely to justify the cost – or are the Penryn’s potentially a rather bigger step forward?

The pricing does look promising if the translation to Sterling is reasonable.
 
I'm more interested heat output than overall performance because its looking like for my needs (3ds max) the phenom will pretty much match a penryn processor clock for clock.

Now if this 45nm q9450 can knock the maximum heat output to below 55C in my sugo using an nt06 then I'll consider it if its faster. However AMD has already stated phenom will be the same temp range as the opteron dual cores (which I have now) so it will be under 55C.
 
Penryn is still natively dual core, the Penryn quads are supposed to be 'stuck together' like Kentsfield. I think Intel's going the native quad (and according to some rumours, octo-core) processors with Nehalem.
 
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