Intel Core 2 Quad - Q9450 for $300 @ Microcenter

[waxking1]

Mine shipped today also, but it is not scheduled for delivery until the 14th. Now I have to find another motherboard.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: mikepaul
I got a Q9450 from them last month. My ASUS P5W DH Deluxe has BIOS issues. The latest 2704 version is unstable at Auto and doesn't let you pick a decent vCore. I guess they aren't letting Auto give it ENOUGH voltage and EIST isn't available to be turned on or off to make sure that's not the issue. One other issue is temperature reporting: search for Q9450 enough and a trend to high reported temps will show up. Some say even the new BIOS versions aren't getting things right. I hope that's why I get 58-53-56-53 at idle.

So I'm running at 2.32Ghz until they get around to another version. Not sure when that will be, even after getting a reply from Tech Support...

P5W-DH works with Q9450?? Wow.

 

[miguel421]

stock levels for the retail chips are actually very high. and with that price I'm shocked at how long they've held so high.


flooded the market with Q6600s?


I dunno, product is good, stock levels are great, and the price is even better. people just need to get off thier butts, get to thier local MC and BUY.

 

[beergeek]

Originally posted by: miguel421
I dunno, product is good, stock levels are great, and the price is even better. people just need to get off thier butts, get to thier local MC and BUY.

It's not like I have a local MC (or a local Fry's, or a local...). I do have a local TD, but I'm not sure that is really something to brag about...

 

[waxking1]

I got mine yesterday. They shipped mine but I got in early. Someone must have told them they couldn't sell them that cheap on the net.

I also decided on a motherboard and went with a ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 but it won't be here until next week.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: mikepaul
I got a Q9450 from them last month. My ASUS P5W DH Deluxe has BIOS issues. The latest 2704 version is unstable at Auto and doesn't let you pick a decent vCore. I guess they aren't letting Auto give it ENOUGH voltage and EIST isn't available to be turned on or off to make sure that's not the issue. One other issue is temperature reporting: search for Q9450 enough and a trend to high reported temps will show up. Some say even the new BIOS versions aren't getting things right. I hope that's why I get 58-53-56-53 at idle.

So I'm running at 2.32Ghz until they get around to another version. Not sure when that will be, even after getting a reply from Tech Support...

I'm running a q6600 OC to 3.0GHz on air with the 2704 bios and its been stable for me so far. I haven't had any problems with it yet... i'll let you know in a couple of days when I come back into town whether it's still ok. I've only been running it for a couple of days... seti is currently running 24/7 on it.

Did you run Prime or something to test if it's returning bad numbers? That's what you were supposed to do in order to determine if it's OK, rather than send bad data to a DC project...

UH, he sent in 75,000 worth of GOOD credits to seti yesterday...I think he knows what he's doing.

 

[slag]

I walked over to Microcenter today on lunch break and they have a ton of 8400 retail (199) and 9450 ($299) processors in stock at the store.


This is in Overland Park, Kansas.

I have an Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard and I don't think it supports 1333 mhz bus speed so I'd have to get a new board. For now, im stuck with my 1.8 ghz chip @ 3.3 ghz.

 

[bamacre]

Damn, I wish this was offered online. I'd pick up a handful.

 

[hans007]

my friend went to the tustin one like 10am this morning and they were down to like 5 q9450s.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: slag
I walked over to Microcenter today on lunch break and they have a ton of 8400 retail (199) and 9450 ($299) processors in stock at the store.


This is in Overland Park, Kansas.

I have an Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard and I don't think it supports 1333 mhz bus speed so I'd have to get a new board. For now, im stuck with my 1.8 ghz chip @ 3.3 ghz.

nm