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Yorkfields are nearly here! Q9300, Q9450 & Q9550 :)

Stonedofmoo said:
Aye I just found that too, $316 in todays currency is £163... or the same price as the current outgoing Q6600

Clearly it never works that way as UK prices are always higher, but £230 is a LOT more.
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Those are the prices if you buy wholesale in blocks of 1000 processors. Not retail prices. And they are pre'tax prices as well.

£199 +vat retail for a single processor, compared to $316 + sales taxes in batches of 1000 units wholesale... not to bad really.
 
Yeah, like, the Q6600 goes for $266 in 1000 units wholesale, and we see it from £150 to £170. Only a $50 (£30-ish) gap between the Q9450 and Q6600/Q9300 so after prices settle down, they shouldn't be too different.
 
£230 wouldn't be too far off the price it should be, the $266 is about the price the Q6600 is now and £150 for them ISN'T bad, thats conversion + vat pretty much.

the 1000 price doesn't matter, that price is what distributors pay, they do NOT buy in batches of 10 and 15 chips, they will always buy in huge numbers, distributors just wouldn't make money if they didn't buy at the cheapest discount manufacturers offered.

but this is what you need to know , a stock Q6600 will only show higher fps/performance in a very limited number of games/applications compared to a Q6600 at 3.6Ghz(which is fairly easy now) or 4Ghz. a yorkdale at stock or at 4Ghz won't be faster than a Q6600 for gaming. it will most likely be a decent wedge faster in encoding due to sse4, ok if you do video encoding for work thats one thing, home use, gaming, light office work, little photoshop and watching films/tv yorkdale offers very little. Q6600 is the best chip to get, cheapish, quad core gives you a lot of performance for very small price increases compared to dual cores now. Have to say, having a phenom rig here too, in games a phenom even at stock is very quick, and its a now about a £120 entry into the quad core market, don't discount phenom's, yeah tlb issue sucks but you really don't need to use the fix. its fast, it feels identical to a Q6600 when you don't encode, mine hit 2.7Ghz on the stock cooler(which is complete pants) at stock volts. a £120 phenom + a £65 pretty damn decently spec'd 790x chipset board is a very very cheap quad core setup and very fast. when we get b3's that clock hugely better and no errata issues it will be even better value.

i'm as much a sucker for performance as the next guy though, i rarely need it but i like a nice Q6600 at 4Ghz :p but even i won't recommend a yorkdale over a kentsfield, its just gonna be harder to hit same Ghz for exactly the same speed system in everything except benchmarks, hey if thats your thing, go get one.

as for the X48, i loved anandtechs proclamation thats its great because........... they hit 500fsb :o . then again i look over at my p35 which runs 500mhz fsb no problem and try to work out whats so fantastic about the X48 :p
 
Dreadi said:
will this release cause any drop in the Q6600 prices ??
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not sure, often a replacement chip won't cause a previous chip to drop in price, they will simply sell the last few eventually and not get more stock in. slightly different this time as the new chips are supposed to be lower quantity for a while, and q6600 production is still going afaik, so maybe prices will drop, but wouldn't think for at least a few weeks after initial very low yorkdale supply eases up a little bit.
 
drunkenmaster said:
as for the X48, i loved anandtechs proclamation thats its great because........... they hit 500fsb :o . then again i look over at my p35 which runs 500mhz fsb no problem and try to work out whats so fantastic about the X48 :p
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Just out of curiousity, what board are you running? :)
 
Yeggstry said:
I think we need a comparison of the Q9450 and the Q6600 on the power side of things. If the Q9450 is going to save me £65 on my electricity bill over a year when having it on 24/7 then I'll probably get it.
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hmm

1. It needs to be on 24/7.

2. It's going to cost you a lot more than £65 to upgrade from Q6600 in the first place..

3. ..Therefore it takes more than 1 year to make up for the cost by then faster processors will be available.

Worth it if you intend to keep it for 3 years+ I suppose but I doubt it.
 
steve258 said:
hmm

1. It needs to be on 24/7.

2. It's going to cost you a lot more than £65 to upgrade from Q6600 in the first place..

3. ..Therefore it takes more than 1 year to make up for the cost by then faster processors will be available.

Worth it if you intend to keep it for 3 years+ I suppose but I doubt it.
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I probably will be. My current machine is a socket A sempron 3000+ (so 3+ years old :P) and this is the first new build I've done since my first year of uni 5 years ago.

I don't intend on moving to another socket after this for a couple of years and I don't upgrade very often. I also noticed that the new machine I have in my basket plus the Q9450 is about £360 less than the machine I built 5 years ago (1200 compared to 840 now).
 
I will be getting one but not at that price.
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Think those prices reflect the fact that there will be limited stocks, OC have no need to make the price very tight becuase they know they will sell out. They might as well maxamise thier profit on these limited stocks.

Be aware the Q6600 is a little cheaper than it should be as there is loads of grey stock about.
 
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