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

thanks

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

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.

$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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

allready available in europe
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/161 [...] q9450.html

tweakers.net! Yeah. Great etailer. I buy all my teenies and 8-balls from them.

A tweaker is a meth head. 8-ball is 3.5 grams (1/8 oz.) of crystal methamphetimine, a teenie is "sweet 16" or 1/16 oz, 1.7 grams. I just know this from readin it on the net, I never had any experence with it first hand and that big garbage bag in the back of my car is filed with oregano, honest, officer!

There probably won't be much difference to average users. Power users, be they enthusiasts or business, would probably notice the difference.

I'm looking forward to the release of these chips. I think a Q9450 would make for a good performer. I'm unsure of the X48 mobo. It looks technically good, but from what I've read it only uses DDR3 ram, which is fairly expensive at the moment. Will have to wait until its actually released to know for sure. Maybe a good X38 that's upgradeable and uses DDR2 ram will work out better. Again, don't know and won't know until they're out.

If I could get a nice, stable 3.8 ghz out of a Q9450, I'd be happy. The Q9550 uses a half multiplier which can be troublesome and the higher chips get expensive fast. Unless I was to drop a grand into a top end chip, which I don't feel like doing at the moment, a Q9450 will do for me.

Nehalam is a fair distance off, and Intel may decide to delay its introduction. Besides, going the "wait for" route just means that a person can end up waiting forever for the next greatest thing. I don't know about anyone else, but I'll be needing a new computer soon. I actually gave my last gamer to my son and am using an office computer at the moment, which means I'm typing while other programs are busy doing important stuff in the background.

The Q9550 multeplier is 8.5 and its not suported by some boards that really should for the price, like the Asus Maximus Formula.

This website says they will have 300 OEM Q9450 arriving on March 24th. I however, have an order with them for the retail Q9450, but it shows no arrive date yet. Hoping it is the 15th like the above poster said.

http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/sho [...] =!ORDERID!

I was going to go with a E8400 but because they are sold out everywhere (newegg, buy.com, ClubIT), and also newegg raised the price to $250, I'm just considering waiting on the Q9450 but I already have the Abit IP35 Pro board.

What suggestions does everyone have???

Multipliers do not effect memory on Intel based systems. It might affect the new Nehalem based processors do to them having a IMC.

Yes, i have been talking to someone with connections inside Intel and the Release date is without a doubt March 15th.

Read
http://tickedtech.blogspot.com/

Uhhh that is today...I think this one goes down as a false prophet!! Hehe.

It's xeon version just became available today, so I wouldnt be surprised to see the regular version today as well.

In stock at:
http://www.lagoom.com/INTEL_CPU_XE [...] 80363.html

If it doesn't show up soon, some catastrophe will come along and suck up my upgrade money.

I'm not willing to upgrade this year if the cash evaporates on me...

damn, ive been waiting since november...