New cheap (but insane performance) Quads coming!

[mrk]

INTEL WILL UNLEASH its 9000-series CPUs any day now. Quads, as you might have guessed, and Yorkfields to boot. XBit Labs has one of these - the Q9300 - under the hammer and have noticed some particularities with this chip that raises some ‘brows – first off they come with half the L2 cache a “standard” Yorkfield would come with (ie: 6MB). Secondly its speed grade is 7.5 times 333MHz, making it 2.5GHz. There's that weird 0.5 multiplier again. In the end XBit Labs doesn’t think the chips are very overclockable, although they do perform brilliantly at the modicum of OC-ing ability they possess – even climbing ahead of the QX9770 any many-a-benchmark. Quite frankly, we wouldn’t complain about a $260 CPU not being able to overclock very high when it’s already neck-and-neck with a CPU of the Extremely Expensive gender –a QX9770. Read the nitty gritty here.

Goodbye my trusty Q6600 B3 methinks

 

[Doppleganger]

It does say this however:

"As a result, Core 2 Quad Q6600 may remain a better choice for overclocker systems, because it may run faster than Core 2 Quad Q9300 in some cases. Moreover, overclocking of previous-generation quad-core processors is a simpler procedure that doesn’t depend that much on the mainboard functionality."

 

[mrk]

Only if you're a dead set overclockinghead though!

I'd rather have cooler cpu, less power usage, newer technology and all for the same price as a Q6600! - means my system can run even more quieter than ever before!

 

[Hesky82]

All that review says to me is that the E8500 is the better choice, which to me is the correct conclusion.

 

[EvilFranky]

Better choice for what? Overclocking?

 

[gurusan]

All that review says to me is that the E8500 is the better choice, which to me is the correct conclusion.

What?

4 is better than 2 !

 

[melbourne720]

***Quad Vs Dual Alert*** ***Quad Vs Dual Alert*** ***Quad Vs Dual Alert***

Quite frankly, we wouldn’t complain about a $260 CPU not being able to overclock very high when it’s already neck-and-neck with a CPU of the Extremely Expensive gender –a QX9770.

I would. The e2160 et al have set my overclocking sites high

 

[=VTA=MANFACE]

Just bought a Q6600. I'm very happy with it, not even overclocked.

Intel, must have some brilliant chips for us later this year if we can really overclock the lower end of the range. I'll wait till June/July,when theres no shortage and no price premium for some great chips.

 

[Schnippzle]

***Quad Vs Dual Alert*** ***Quad Vs Dual Alert*** ***Quad Vs Dual Alert***

People with dual core have small e-willies.

***Quad Vs Dual Alert*** ***Quad Vs Dual Alert*** ***Quad Vs Dual Alert***

 

[pastymuncher]

After having a play with a E8500 for a week i would hold off on these new quads to make sure they don't have the same problems, ie, inaccurate temp readings, stupidly high vcore needed for a decent stable overclock, overclock stability, degredation of the cpu and cpu's dying. There have been quite a few of the last two happening over at XS.

 

[HummuH1]

^^ lol

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

insane performance but it isnt even as good as a Q6600 in some benchmarks?

then all i say is meh

 

[mrk]

But putting gaming aside, quad cores is better than dual in apps like photoshop and whatnot!

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

But putting gaming aside, quad cores is better than dual in apps like photoshop and whatnot!

if you can get a quad to 3.6 or so i dont see the point in these E8***'s everyone is screaming about since half of them struggle to get to 4gig which you wouldnt notice the difference anyway in games.

 

[Big.Wayne]

i dont see the point in these E8***'s

The point is very simple

1. Better performance out the box
2. Use less power, more Eco-Friendly
3. New multimedia CPU Instruction sets

For anyone that doesn't overclock . . . these chips are great, for anyone that is involved in media production you would be able to get a bit more work done every day.

The Penryn cores are evolutionary not revolutionary, once the manufacturing process is tweaked I shall be buying one I reckon

 

[Schnippzle]

whats the point of a huge e-willie, its real life that matters.... and I think most women think girth over length anyday... pesky showoffs

itslike having a 12" c*ck, but only ever getting 6" in! useless @ this time.... (ok in future when software fully supports etc... balh blah)

lmao

Simple solution, change woman or wear her in

 

[Schnippzle]

only an analagy (sp? lol)

Analogy.....but yes, was competely off topic, sorry OP

 

[Neal]

yep sorry OP. *made me laugh any way*

 

[pumpman]

After having a play with a E8500 for a week i would hold off on these new quads to make sure they don't have the same problems, ie, inaccurate temp readings, stupidly high vcore needed for a decent stable overclock, overclock stability, degredation of the cpu and cpu's dying. There have been quite a few of the last two happening over at XS.

I wonder why it is, that this not plastered all over the web and pc magazines, when the
bug in the new phenom chips is reported on an almost daily basis, wouldn,t have anything to do with Intel paying a lot of these publications money for advertising or the likes would it ???

 

[domyboy]

The only chip i could see a point in buying is the Q9450, as the Q9550 is just too exspensive and the Q9300 is 40 quid more exspensive than the Q6600.