When will vendors have the Q9450 in stock? If possible, the exact date in January 08 would be nice

thanks

Mid/Late Jan 08.

I think it's the 15th or something.

Odds are vendors will have it within 24 hours of launch... how quick they sell out is another story.

And what the Price on Release will be yet another.
It took the Q600 G0 quite a while to settle in price.

Price per 1000 is supposed to be $316 for the Q9450. Q9550 is $530.

94 uses an 8x.
95 uses an 8.5x.

I think if the Q9450 even only better Q6600 performance (as it should) they will sell like hot cakes and availability will be that of the 8800GT in the early stages.

so the $316 is for quantities of 1000? how much will vendors sell it for?

i might just go with the q6600 if it's significantly pricier than the q6600

$350-400.

Clock for clock there won't be a huge difference. L2 Cache goes from 8 MB to 12 MB. Q9450 will have SSE4 support which the Q6600 does not.

Based on reviews of the new Extreme Penryn I'd say the Q9450 will beat the Q6600 to hell when it comes to overclocking. Get a good board and you're set.

Q9300 will replace the Q6600. SSE4 support, 6 MB Cache, 2.5 GHz clock, 7.5x Multi. $266/1000.

I wonder if the Phenom 9700 (2.4 ghz) will come in at $199..?

The Phenom 9700 (at least according to AMD's benchmarks) is pretty much a dead heat with the existing Q6600 - The Q9300 will pick up about 6-7% from tweeks, + and another few % from the clock speed boost and faster FSB so +/- 10 faster than a Phenom 9700 seems like a good bet..

Hmm.. dropping a pile of $199 phenom 9700s in a bunch ol old AM2 boards could be a nice little upgrade path...

Waiting for the cheaper models. *Sighs.* If it takes awhile for Penryn 3GHZ to come out, even longer for the slower processors.

i will get a new Q9000 series after the price comes down some. to like $266 or $300 then get it and give my q6600 to my friend. but i just never tought i would see the day intel put out a 45nm cpu lol. i always was thinking it would be like pentium 8 or something lol. but just that me being silly

At the end of the day yea... AMD will be fine for playing games. Like they always have been.

Overall performance wise? Even if Phenom is dead heat with Q6600 at 2.4 GHz a lot of people are running their Q6600s over 3.0+ GHz. What's going to be the clock limit on Phenoms? When Penryn comes out it seems from initial reports it won't be hard to push them over 4 GHz on air as a quad.

At the same time, AMD will be fine for playing games, and will be fine... if they can actually get Phenoms out.

Any updates on an exact release date for Q9450? Any educated guesses as to retail (new egg) price on the day of release? I'm curious, because if it's going to be much more than $400 I'll just say to hell with it and get a Q6600.

Thats my problem too. I do want a quad core, but I have the feeling that once they are placed on the market, the price is gonna do the same thing as the 8800gt. I may have to wait till Feb., or March to wee if the prices stablelize.

January 20th according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_ [...] processors

I am also in the same boat, will wait till mid-Jan to build a new rig.

Read:
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/13724

new quads will run 4ghz on air no doubt

You just need a mobo that's stable up to and beyond 500 MHz. I'm not sure any of the current x38 boards can go that high. The Foxconn, for example, can only hit 430 before crapping out. The chip is not the OC bottle neck in this case.

Didnt think id see that happen ... x48 should solve that

Im also looking @ getting a Q9450 especialy as iv just read the my EVGA 680i motherboard will run the penryn . i currently have a Q6600 but will just put that into a 2nd system. Te question is will it run the Penryn @ its full FSB or not

If AMD's B3 release sked really is 6 months away or so then we might all be waitin for more yorkies for a good long time!