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Q9450

have you tried to prime it yet, ide love to see what the temps get like, not to mention how much voltage it needs, when running prime.
 
marmalizer said:
I went in store at 2pm yesterday to pick one up as it was showing 10+ in stock, only to be told it was a database error and they had non in stock and they might do on 3rd April.

Time Machine currently in the garage getting new alternator :p

It still is showing 10+ in stock :(
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If thats the case it sounds abit iffy to me.
 
mogwai said:
But the 12 mb cache is shared between all 4 cores so this should provide a good improvement over an 8400.
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Is it? If it's really two E8200s stuck together the cores should be unable to access the full 12mb of cache, and should be limited to 6mb & 6mb.

I'm looking at getting one of these...new student loan is coming in and you know how it is :) I'd like a quad core CPU that doesn't require 1.5v to do 3.5ghz....I feel my really sucky Q6600 needs replacing.
 
VoG said:
have you tried to prime it yet, ide love to see what the temps get like, not to mention how much voltage it needs, when running prime.
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No idea on the temps both Core Temp and Real Temp show core three and four locked to 57c they never move under any load, The temps for cores one and two seem unreliable aswell. The bios seems to be the only way to get arcuate temps atm. It idles at around 24c under custom water at my current clock.
 
Mine shows temps of 45 - 47 idle. 55 - 57 after one hour of Pime. I'm using an Akasa Revo, this is a closed loop liquid cooler I have a temp sensor taped to the outlet pipe and it hardly gets over room temperature. I'm going to start another thread about it in the OC Cooling section. This cooler has a 'Bubble Pump' which I suspect is marketing speak convection.

Mick
 
-iceblade^ said:
still have no faith in the OCing abilities of these chips, which is sad, really... they did mess it up quite badly with that low multiplier
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do you actually think Intel care about overclocking... on paper the Q9450 is better than the Q6600 all at stock, thats all that matters to them.
 
I notice high temps and lots of volts, even though mine is a Q9300 it is still same series.
mine seem to idle at 59/59/56/56
Checked my cooler it is seated fine.
I can do 3.46ghz at 1.3v but any higher it wants over 1.4v
 
after reading some posts on other forums looks like these new q9450's dont clock much better than the q6600 and there are 2 reports so far of people reaching good clocks with the q9450 but the clocks degrading and being unstable for no apparent reason.
looks like the penryn cpus may be something to avoid for someone who wants to run them clocks up for long term.

will have to wait for more reviews to surface.
 
Think I will stick with my Q6600 GO running at 3.2 GHz 27/7 rock solid, 3.4 GHz with a nudge. Thing is, I don't see anything I use this chip for (mainly gaming) pushing all cores anywhere near close to 100%.
Until that day comes then it will be sufficient.
I can see the attraction of a new CPU that clocks much higher, but as said, these don't "appear" yet to do that.
Sit tight is the best policy !
 
I have a Q6600 @3.6GHz stable, can do 3.8GHz for benching, and from what I have seen of the Q9450 so far, it would be a bit of a waste of money (for me anyway) to buy one, for the extra performance increase (10% overall), is just not worth the £100+ I would have to spend (with selling the Q6600) to get it, so, for the time being I will just stick with the Q6600. :)
 
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