Q9450 $350+S/H @ TD

[beergeek]

Tiger Direct is showing the retail Q9450 at $350 plus S&H. Link

Unfortunately, this doesn't do _me_ much good - S&H would only be $3.75 for me, and I could probably avoid that by actually going to a TD store to pick it up. However, the $21+ tax makes it much less exciting...🙂

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Moogr has the X3350 for $349 with free shipping
Here

 

[Schadenfroh]

Retail boxed Q9450 for $300 @ Microcenter (online and B&M)

 

[FatLeprechaun]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Retail boxed Q9450 for $300 @ Microcenter (online and B&M)

The problem is that you can't get it online and I don't live near a micro center 🙁

 

[beergeek]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Moogr has the X3350 for $349 with free shipping
Here

Has it been established that the 3350 is really the same as the 9450? As I remember, there was talk that the Xeon and standard version of the 8400 were somewhat different (maybe just due to binning selection) in voltage and thermal characteristics, which could affect overclockability. Since the real target customers of Xeons wouldn't overclock, but are very interested in reliability, Intel might bin the parts differently...

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: beergeek

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Moogr has the X3350 for $349 with free shipping
Here

Has it been established that the 3350 is really the same as the 9450? As I remember, there was talk that the Xeon and standard version of the 8400 were somewhat different (maybe just due to binning selection) in voltage and thermal characteristics, which could affect overclockability. Since the real target customers of Xeons wouldn't overclock, but are very interested in reliability, Intel might bin the parts differently...

the target market of both processors dont overclock.

xeon's are intended to go into server farms where there's a LOT of computers in a very small space. ie, lots of thermal production. therefore, if anything's getting binned, it's the other way. the better procs will go to xeons.

but i think it's probably too costly to bother with that, and they are the same.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

All I know is the vcore is listed lower for the xeon's, my x3350 's is 1.195. And it overclocks very well, I have gotten it prime stable at 3.8ghz but without a vdroop mod on my board it requires more voltage at idle than I'm willing to live with 24/7 so I run it at 3640 most of the time.