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Q9550 ES Testing (lots of pics)

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MonsterMunch was kind enough to run this bench at the same clock and ram settings with a Q6600. Done on an Asus P5K Premium:

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So when do you think your gona put an aftermarket cooler on it? Are you going to be doing any water cooling/phase?

Even tho i have just upgraded i really want one of them quads when they come out :P It's look very good so far :D
 
I have learned great things from this thread.

That my Q6600 is not "too far" away from the Q9 above at stock :) and that Speedfan has been updated a few days ago that I was not aware of so my temps now should say what coretemp says as the tj is at 100 :D

I have also learned that the new quads will still work on my p35 mobo (didn't think they'd be LGA775 :))
 
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hehe my Tjuction temp is at 100C 2 lmao
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Oh my.. errr....thats what its supposed to be ? Its not a temperature reading, just a value used to calculate the temperature. He was saying its right now its 100c rather than 85c.
 
Due to the prices of DDR3 being so high im planning on using DDR2 when i buy a whole new rig early next year. Will this effect the overclocking of these new 45nm chips at all? bearing in mind im only going to do a overclock on air, so i wont be able to go all out anyway. But will DDR2 hole the overclockign potential of these chips back? or will DDR2 be fine due to motherboard being a potential limiting factor?
 
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Due to the prices of DDR3 being so high im planning on using DDR2 when i buy a whole new rig early next year. Will this effect the overclocking of these new 45nm chips at all? bearing in mind im only going to do a overclock on air, so i wont be able to go all out anyway. But will DDR2 hole the overclockign potential of these chips back? or will DDR2 be fine due to motherboard being a potential limiting factor?
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Given that I am using an early bios revision on the Asus Maximus (DDR2), and that the ram is at 900mhz for 3.6Ghz on stock cooling. Come release date I don't think you will have anything to worry about.

I still have a few tests and comparisons of platforms to do. Watch this space. :)
 
ok i am doing insane overtime at work just to get a decent pc next month, i was planning to build my new system based on a q6600 and a 8800GT.
Should i wait for these processors?

The Q9450 is around the price of the Q6600 and it has 12MB of cache. Is this going to be the new sweetspot in price/performance?
 
A few people have already said to me that they are thinking of or plan to sell thier Q6600 for a Q9*50 cpu. But, I'll let the different benchmarks speak for themselves. People can apply the results for thier own needs and purchasing decision, be it for video encoding, gaming, power efficiency, etc...

One great thing about this chip is that for the Q6600 to perform on par (at least in some respects), it needs a hefty overclock and expensive after market cooling. Just wait until I really start overclocking. :D


The Q9450 should give some better frame rates over the Q6600. My 3dmark 06 score suggests this, a Crysis Demo test with an 8800GTX is on my to do list to see just how much, along side a fresh Vista 64 install and a PCmark Vantage test. After market air cooling, watercooling, and Phase cooling are still planned. If anyone would like to see a benchmark that I haven't performed, just post here and I'll do my best.
 
Personally I would like to see how the Penryn chip performs at stock compared to say an OC'd Q6600 [3.0 GHz] for gaming, I guess to a lesser degree the most demanding gaming benchmark but preferrably actual FPS in games.

This is what I am really interested in, performance in the real world, not comparing bench marks.
 
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