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***The Official Yorkfield Q9300/Q9450/Q9550 Overclocking Thread ***

its more like £100 difference isn't it? for a more fragile cpu that probably clocks less well..

I'd LOVE to see some like for like speed tests, 1MB superpi would be enough to show if there is a like for like speed difference ie is a 3.2ghz Q9450 faster than a 3.8 Q6600.

Can't see it myself, not sure what people are getting so wound up about :)
 
not many overclocked results here, thought there would be more, both cpu's have been in stock at most places on and off for the past 1 week.

Want to see how far the Q9300 and Q9450 will overclock on a p35 board, dont wanna spend £210 on a Q9450, but early overclocks weeks ago people were saying the q9300 only got 3.2ghz ish, would like some concrete overclocks really.
 
what u got it running stable at then? dont suppose you have benchmarks of your overclock compared to an overclock of your previous overclock e.g a core2 dual core? Wanna know how good the q9300/9450 are for encoding xvid and x264 compared to my e6400 clock for clock e.g 3.5ghz q9300 vs my 3.5ghz e6400.
 
Devious said:
how about a quad Q6600 for £140 instead ?
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Well on the positive its nice to see the price slowly dropping on the older Kentsfield cpus! . . . however the newer Yorkfield quads are using about 20% less electricity which personally I find very appealing!

Not sure why INTEL are not releasing a gazillion of these WOlfdale/Yorkfield chips for sale? :confused:

Wanting a Q9450 myself atm but figure it may be a month or two before they are flooding into stock and settling in price? I may even go for a cheaper Q9300 as I don't really need a mammoth overclocked quad core!

Yorkfield = Video Editor's Chip Of Choice! :cool:
 
yeah, some smaller places are charging £176 ish for q9300 and bigger places charges £188+ as they have only just released, so expect £170 in 3 weeks ish i reckon. £210 for q9450, £225+ at most places, hopefully £205 in 1 month.

I wont be buying for atleast 1 month as shops always bump up the prices till there is loads of stock available. Would really like to see what the average q9300/9450 overclocks to and what fps encoding you get compared to a core2 with low cache like e6400 for xvid and x264 encoding.
 
I recieved my Ultra 120 Extreme today and my Q9450 OEM and Asus Rampage x48 both arrive tommorow so I will be posting some results here, Might need some hints on what to use though? this is the first time I have built/OC'd a system.

I will try 3.4ghz without thinking, then run CPU Z and what other programs to test stability?

Thanks

All you do is increase 333 to 425 right? simple as that which will give 3.4ghz and 850mhz DDR2?
 
matt100 said:
I'd LOVE to see some like for like speed tests, 1MB superpi would be enough to show if there is a like for like speed difference ie is a 3.2ghz Q9450 faster than a 3.8 Q6600.

Can't see it myself, not sure what people are getting so wound up about :)
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Well my Q6600s 1mb super pi at 4GHz matches Smirnoff Q9450 running at 3.8GHz exactly to the ms. As super pi is not utilising the new instructions the 45nm chips run, the yorkfields extra cache is its only advantage, so the margin will always be small.

I really hope they dont need 1.5v to run stable at 3.6GHz+ :eek: my Q6600 only needs 1.288v to clock at 3.6GHz prime stable. From early results it looks to run cooler than these new yorkfields to. Perhaps these yorkfields have similar temp issues the wolfdales exhibited.

I hope they have cores nearly as good as the extreme chips, that way we should see some very low voltage respectable clocks.
 
i want some people to test 1.55v and 1.6v with watercooling and run it 24/7 for 1 week doing full load tests, ive got watercooling and i wanna overclock 1 to it's max.
 
clocka said:
what u got it running stable at then? dont suppose you have benchmarks of your overclock compared to an overclock of your previous overclock e.g a core2 dual core? Wanna know how good the q9300/9450 are for encoding xvid and x264 compared to my e6400 clock for clock e.g 3.5ghz q9300 vs my 3.5ghz e6400.
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definetly feels faster than my old CPU which was similer to yours [email protected]
Faster in all benchs I tried, is it worth changing maybee not, but I wanted a change and can afford to, so no brainer for me, did want a 9450 but got sick of waiting 9300 is still good for me, once other people have them and this FSB wall can be cracked will be better, but stable just a tad under 3.5 is ok for me.
 
The Q9300 becomes more tempting however I keep forgetting that is has half the cache (6MB) of its bigger brothers (12MB).

With a view to get some video editing done I assume the full 12MB cache would make a reasonable difference compared to 6MB?
 
Big.Wayne said:
The Q9300 becomes more tempting however I keep forgetting that is has half the cache (6MB) of its bigger brothers (12MB).

With a view to get some video editing done I assume the full 12MB cache would make a reasonable difference compared to 6MB?
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The low cache is a shame. If it was the full 12mb I'd just go straight for the Q9300.
 
clocka said:
i want some people to test 1.55v and 1.6v with watercooling and run it 24/7 for 1 week doing full load tests, ive got watercooling and i wanna overclock 1 to it's max.
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What, so you can sit on the sidelines and watch them destroy thier cpu's for your benefit ?

Spend your own money and do your own testing.
 
Anyone got an idea why the OEM's are being sold first?. The 9300 is out on retail so it doesn't make sense.
 
J.D said:
Anyone got an idea why the OEM's are being sold first?. The 9300 is out on retail so it doesn't make sense.
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It's normal for new releases to appear in OEM form first as they are usually made available to system builders before the retail versions are made available to the general public.
 
kitfit1 said:
What, so you can sit on the sidelines and watch them destroy thier cpu's for your benefit ?

Spend your own money and do your own testing.
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lol, i aint gunna pay the inflated current prices that people are charging now, will wait 6 weeks or so, by then watercooled guys will have tried 1.55v/1.6v too, i'd be happy with an q9450 for £200 and 3.8ghz. Dont want any less though.
 
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clocka said:
lol, i aint gunna pay the inflated current prices that people are charging now, will wait 6 weeks or so, by then watercooled guys will have tried 1.55v/1.6v too i'd be happy with an q9450 for £200 and 3.8ghz. Dont want any less though.
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It is'nt going to happen. If they are anything like the Wolfdales those voltages will damage/degrade them. It does'nt matter if you have air/water/phase cooling. It's not about temps, it's the voltage. If you want those sort of voltages/clocks get a Q6600.
 
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