Great quad-core article at Xbitlabs

Denithor

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Interesting read.

Q8200 pretty much matches Q6600 but beats it in power & heat, falls behind slightly in games.

E8600 wins anything not optimized for multicore processing.
 

harpoon84

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The Q9400 looks somewhat overpriced for the relative performance. The Q8200 is interesting because its close enough (price & performance) to be a direct competitor to the Q6600 and Phenom 9950BE. If stock performance was all I cared about it'd be a no brainer considering the power savings, but its 7x multi means overclocking potential will be limited - and it shows maxing out at 3.4GHz in the article, which is actually quite impressive considering it takes a 485MHz FSB just to hit those clocks.
 

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You can thank the lack of competition for the Q9000 series being such a joke. The 45nm cores are technically superior to the 65nm in every way, but thanks to high prices and low multi, it remained not viable to purchase one instead of the Q6600 right up until the release of it's successor, the Core i7.
 

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Originally posted by: dennilfloss
They forgot to include the dual E8600 in their overcloking performance gaming results so we could compare its max potential to the quads. Maybe it's because it would have looked bad for the quads.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...ore2quad-q9400_15.html

if you compare the gaming test with the overclock tests the quads need a hefty overclock to beat the e8600 at stock speeds, that is if the testing is the same conditions which i would assume.

some e8600 get well past 4ghz so i think for current gaming it's pretty obvious duals are still king
 

Tempered81

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Originally posted by: Sureshot324
You can thank the lack of competition for the Q9000 series being such a joke. The 45nm cores are technically superior to the 65nm in every way, but thanks to high prices and low multi, it remained not viable to purchase one instead of the Q6600 right up until the release of it's successor, the Core i7.

yah if Intel had a 45nm new quad, E0 or something with the same Tjmax as the 9450/9550/9650, that came with an 11 or 12x multi, and cost $200, this whole board would be running that cpu.