My dad made a fairly good point yesterday. I'm trying to sell my computer, and if I succeed, I plan on getting a new rig, including the Q9450 right when it comes out. His stand was that it wouldn't be wise to get a CPU right when it came out, but to wait until people tested it and made sure it was good. If I went with this, I'd probably be waiting even longer without a computer to use other than my parent's HP.
My question is: Do you think that the Q9450 will have anything that would stop someone from buying it? Would it be able to hold a good overclock? Or should I wait until they are tester, or just get a Q6600?
They most likely will come out with better revisions, such as the Q6600 coming out with the G0, although theres nothing really wrong with buying a processor when it just comes out, except maybe a premium in price. The 45nm processors aren't entirely new either, the QX9650 has been out for some time now, so if there was something wrong with the architecture, it would have been fixed already.
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According to Tom's Hardware, Intel is delaying the release of that CPU, but not because there is a problem with it. Given the fact that it's already built on a solid platform, and it's getting extra 'tweaking' time when it doesn't really need it, I think it's safe to assume that it's going to be a sweet processor. I plan on getting a Q9550 or a Q9650 within a week or two of release (as soon as prices settle down a little).
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/...md_s_problems/
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at stock settings would the q9550 beat my q6600 at 3.6ghz
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at stock settings would the q9550 beat my q6600 at 3.6ghz
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Cache also plays in it...
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at stock settings would the q9550 beat my q6600 at 3.6ghz
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No, clock for clock the new 45nm processors are only a bit better in today's benchmarks.
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So it may not come out until late January or February? Would I be better off (money wise vs. performance) just getting a G0 Q6600? That way I could go 780i, among other things.
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So it may not come out until late January or February? Would I be better off (money wise vs. performance) just getting a G0 Q6600? That way I could go 780i, among other things.
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I don't think 780i support 45nm C2Q CPU...
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