Intel's New Quad in November

Intel plans to release the first 45nm desktop CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX9650 on November 11, according to sources at motherboard makers.

The quad-core CPU will offer a frequency of 3.0GHz with 1333MHz FSB and 12MB L2 cache. As is typical for products in the Extreme series, pricing for the CPU will be set at US$999 in 1000-unit tray quantities.

In an update to previous reports, three 45nm quad-core CPUs (Yorkfield) and another three 45nm dual-core CPUs (Wolfdale) for desktops will be launched in January next year, noted the sources.

The three quad-core CPUs will include the Core 2 Quad Q9550 (2.83GHz, 12MB L2 cache), Q9450 (2.66GHz, 12MB) and Q9300 (2.5GHz, 6MB), with pricing expected at US$530, US$316 and US$266 in 1000-unit tray quantities, respectively.

The three dual-core CPUs will include the Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz, 6MB L2 cache), E8400 (3.0GHz) and E8200 (2.66GHz) priced at US$266, US$183 and US$163 in 1000-unit tray quantities, respectively. Plans also include a fourth dual-core CPU, the E8300 (2.83Ghz, 6MB), but pricing and availability have not yet been set.

All the 45nm desktop CPUs will support Intel Virtualization technology, Intel Trusted Execution technology, Intel Enhanced SpeedStep technology, Intel 64 technology and Execute Disable Bit.

Intel declined the opportunity to respond to this report saying it cannot comment on unannounced products.

Dude can't wait,,,,btw does anybody want to buy my q6600? lol

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28 [...] h-details/


wow its true, hmm i may need to get a new cpu then!

guys..read it carefully...november is the extreme penryn processor. With January releasing yorkfield....Extreme version november..Desktop yorkfield in january..Still about 3 and a half months to go before we get the desktop versions...

No. The lowest model with 12MB cache is the Q9450.

http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+Pre [...] le9070.htm

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Somebody please just kill me now!

Yep. They should be available sometime in Q1 2008.

I'm hoping that Intel will release some Nehalem benchmarks in Q1 2008 before I decide to upgrade to Penryn.

Q9450 is the chip for me too, I cant wait. Hopefully it will be running at 3.2Ghz, a 20% OC isnt all that ambitious... 1:1 w/1600Mhz, the price/performance will be very nice

Q9450 will be around $400 most of the retailer going jump the price to $400.

...At least until nVidia releases their cpu-analog, be it x86 or x64 based.

Nah, AMD won't go out of business.

I'm sure companies like VIA or IBM wouldn't mind buying them out for pennies on the dollar.

I see a couple sources saying the fastest Intel desktop quad will be C2QXEE 3.2 GHz FSB 1600 12MB Socket LGA 775. Faud says, Nov 12, 2007. Other sources are saying end of year.

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/In [...] /5283.html

OK, now here is a question. Is there going to be enough performance gain from these new cpus for me to upgrade to them from my current q6600 oced to 3.2Ghz? I am mainly looking at the Q9450.

My question is if these will be the last socket 775 chips that Intel makes?

Lost Planet makes good use of my Q6600 O/C to 3.0 GHz. I ran the performance test at 1280X720 and it got over 80% CPU utilization at times.

Well from what I heard, the REAL 32nm Nahalem won't be out until 2009 or late 2008.

The Nahalems coming out next summer will still be 45nm. (should still be a good bit better then penryns)


So if you wait, you may be waiting a long time...... IMO-- Your overclocked Q6600, is more then enough power for the next year or so! Unless you got money to burn, or manage to sell your Q6600 for a good price, I'd say just wait until the end of 2008 before you bother spending any more cash.

Why wait?

1- The Q6600 is a great chip after all!

2- Software needs to catch up! If you early adopt all this new hardware, it is mostly a waste of money right now, considering your rig is still fairly recent.

Now people like me, who don't even have a Q6600, we might as well wait until penryn =D

layman's term ?
Yorkfield is much better than Kentfield (the Q6600) You can't go wrong.
The Nahalem comes long after that (early 2009) and uses a completely different motherboard, socket, etc.

The Yorkfield will show big gains in media encoding (at first), later like late 2008, I assume games will start using the power of Yorkfield.

Seeing things load faster has more to do with the hard-drive and RAM. Get a WD-Raptor (for now) or a 15k RPM SCSI drive (if you have money to burn). Most new/large 7200 rpm drives are 'GOOD ENOUGH'. Also have PLENTY of RAM. 2+ gigs. Not enough Ram will make everything slow, even if you have the best CPU ever.

If you wait til January I doubt you will still want an 8800gts.

Are you sure the Q9450 will e $315?

My mistake, looks like the upcoming Q9450 is going to be like $530, that's too much for my way of thinking, so maybe i will go with just a Q6600 for now at about $300.

TC

But they're per tray of 1000 methinks... you gotta add resellers margins onto them as well...

Any idea if the Q9450 will overclock as well as the Q6600?

It's stock at 2.66ghz and be great to get 3.66ghz or more.

I usually advise people to ride the 1 gen old wave. The only time I broke that rule was when the Core 2s first came out. Usually, state-of-the-art jumps by 10-15% ... at a cost of 2X.

I just upgraded my wife's and my computers at Dell 3 months ago. For $609, we got a q6600, 2GB ram, a surprisingly nice case, Vista and all of the other basic junk that makes a functioning machine. As a gamer, I added a Raid 0 drive set, 2 more GB ram (I know Vista won't use it all), and an 8800 GTS and still came in under $1K. For my wife, I added a large data hard drive and upgraded her monitor to a 22" Samsung for a total of about $950.

My machine screams on every game title I have thrown at it (SupCom, Oblivion, World In Conflict ...) except MOH which has issues (I have seen the same complaint from other people). Best of all, the new machine runs MATLAB 3 to 4 times faster than my old machine. Work gets done faster and there is more time to play!!

Agree.
It took me a few months to learn VIIV is actually just computer specs written more tightly (like centrino).
Well I don't think it sucks, but it did confuse the hell out of everyone by marketing it like it was some kind of product or feature.
All Intel PCs should have tightly written specs without giving it some stupid name, no one can sell specs anyway.

Yup. You gotta love a 'feature' that is actually just a marketing gimmic that means that machine is "Intel Enough" to have the VIIV label. I don't blame AMD for Live, they were like the little brother that emulates the big brother, they wouldn't have done it on their own.

Yorkfield is mainly a die shrink Nahalem is the major upgrade with integrated memory controller. Just up that doesn't lock us into DDR3. It's better I'm not sure at this point I would say much better.