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Will Quad Core Q9000 Range Reduce In price

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Hi

Will we see a reduction in the pricing of the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 - Q9450 - Q9550 over the next 2 or 3 months, I am looking to buy Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 next week and currently have a Wolfdale E8500 not OC. I am thinking of buying a Q9450 though might wait and see if the price goes down, any advice

Thanks
 
I thought there were across the board price cuts at the end of June plus launch of new quad chip to replace q6600 as well?
 
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Greebo said:
I thought there were across the board price cuts at the end of June plus launch of new quad chip to replace q6600 as well?
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Yeah that's the plan :) Will be nice to have Penryn across the board soon, just hope they will launch some with higher multis for lower prices.
 
The E7300, and E8600 are x10 multiplier dual cores, and the Q9650 will be on a x9 multiplier, but thats a high priced chip.

Q6600 will carry on for a while, but Q6700, and Q9450 are both being axed, so they wont drop in price much, they will just fade away.

I wouldnt expect any great "excitement" from intels Q3 lineup, as Nehalem will be showing up in Q4 at least for the extreme lineup. Hopefully Nehalems's performance mainstream (still bloomfield motherboard) parts will come reasonably quickly.

The new "Budget" Q8000 is a 2.33Ghz part, with a 4meg cache. And its the same price as Q6600. Lower clocks, less cache, higher fsb, same money. Doesnt look like a great deal to me, as the Penryn's benifits will be largely negated by the lower clock and cache.
 
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^^ what he said.

Not sure about the time frame for the mainstream nehalems though, I'd read somewhere that they would be awhile after the extreme part
 
So is it worth snaggin a Q9450 in the next few weeks if you were making a new system? why are they being phased out exactly?

I thought these were using the new 45nm cores so are the "latest thing" in the C2 range?

As far as i can see for the price they are the best chip thats a "new" core size and not a silly price while being a full quad core. I was planning on one of these plus a Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 Intel X48 and 4gb of ddr3. That way i can still upgrade the cpu end of next year when the new nehalems force the price of the top end cpus down to a normal level, plus ill have the ddr3 ram in place should i go the whole hog and swap to nehalem.
 
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The 9450 is basically being squeezed out, with the 9300 upgraded from 2.5 ghz to the 2.66Ghz 9400, and the 9550 being reduced in price to the current 9450 price.

Basically its not worth buying the 9450, as soon you can have the 9550 for the same money, and its "faster" at stock. All depends if you want the lower multiplier, but as the quads seem to be FSB limited, I would assume the 9550 will be the better option all round. (If you want the 12meg cache) or the 9400 if you are satisfied with 6meg cache.
 
Ditto to what Corasik said. The Q9550 will become the same price as the Q9450 is now so no point buying one unless you really can't wait.
 
I would assume that the increased speeds of the highest chips, and the phaseing out of the lowest is A) an indication that the Yields on 45nm are good and getting better, and B) Intel's continued performance/price wars with AMD.
 
Gotta be worth waiting now....If you don't buy when they first come out and wait till a few months down the line, then just wait for a price drop.

Failing that, grab a cheap dual now and have some fun overclocking it and make a few quid loss when you sell it ;)
 
Corasik said:
Basically its not worth buying the 9450, as soon you can have the 9550 for the same money, and its "faster" at stock. All depends if you want the lower multiplier, but as the quads seem to be FSB limited, I would assume the 9550 will be the better option all round. (If you want the 12meg cache) or the 9400 if you are satisfied with 6meg cache.
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Just to clarify, a x8 or 8.5 multi Q9x50 will hit the same FSB when overclocked?

I'm about to do an upgrade and have been thinking about whether to wait for the Q9550 to drop in price or whether to get the Q9450 for the lower multiplier.
 
Stu said:
Just to clarify, a x8 or 8.5 multi Q9x50 will hit the same FSB when overclocked?

I'm about to do an upgrade and have been thinking about whether to wait for the Q9550 to drop in price or whether to get the Q9450 for the lower multiplier.
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Im in exactly the same pickle. Ive got 800quid right now and if i dont spend soon the mrs will "redistribute" the wealth :mad:
 
Pretty much everything I have read about the 45nm quads is they are FSB capped, so yes, they should hit comparible FSB speeds, and then final speed of the overclocked 9550 should be faster.

Of course every chip is different, so you may find a 9550 that hits clockspeed wall before it reaches the FSB wall. But I believe on the whole, the higher multipliers are a good thing on the 45nm quads.

So the 9400 and the 9550 should both be good choices depending on whether you want 6meg cache or 12meg cache. (Once the Q3 products @ prices are in retail)
 
Im also temped to opt for one of the Xeon variants. The kind of mb i have in mind should run one no problems and for the small price extra you are probably going to get a higher chance of a good overclock, what with xeons being cherrypicked by intel.
 
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