QX6800 coming Monday ?

[NoobyDoo]

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We are told that the NDA goes up on the QX6800 Monday, the samples floating everywhere now are 2.93GHz on a 1066FSB, basically matching the current X6800 clock for clock.
Q2 production will be in the low thousands ... the parts are going to be closer to 150W ...
The real QX6800s will come out in Q3 with a new stepping of the core Core number core numeral 2. This new stepping will drop power we are told 'substantially', and pave the way for volume QX6800 production. It also bodes well for a dual core speed bump, but that may not be in the marketing cards.

 

[NoobyDoo]

Inq review

The Good
- The fastest desktop CPU money can buy as of April 8th, 2007
- Drop-in socket upgrade with majority of S775 motherboards out there
- Nvidia's 680i chipset just got new best friend
- All-around product with good overclocking capabilities
- Brilliant in Modo 203

The Bad
- No 1333 MHz FSB because cherry-picked cores are still reserved for Clovertown
- 150W TDP may be a bit steep when performance/watt is compared to Clovertown at 3.0 GHz
- 1333FSB cannot be achieved even with overclocking or downclock to 2.66 (8x333)
- Time of the launch - brilliant move, guys!

The Ugly
- Intel is continuing to bundle useless stock cooler for $7.00 with a $1000 CPU - and that very same $7.00 cooler is not able to cool this baby down. 4-year old cooler will do a better job, it would not dent your margins to have something decent alongside this hot piece of silicon.

Bartender's Report
9/10

 

[NoobyDoo]

Second INQpression

Summary:
Some, but seemingly not all, of the QX6800 parts really do have that fantastic FSB performance of the XeonUP parts combined with the unlocked multipliers for sky high overclocking potential - part of the reason, I suspect, is due to them possibly coming out of the same bin as the high-FSB Clovertown parts for Apple Mac Pro.

If using Striker Extreme, with its elaborate heat pipes and zillion fans (one on each copper block), you're fine at FSB 1667, maybe higher - at least I was for the past month or two. However, the ECS / EVGA (read: Nvidia) generic 680i board design is woefully undercovered heat-wise. Theo will be running it in water cooled mode soon, and I feel even more than that may be needed as we aim for a reliable 2+ GHz FSB operation.

 

[aigomorla]

ahahahahaa.. great post!

yes intel definitely needs to either trash that cooler all together, or get in shape like AMD did with its heat pipe coolers.

GAH... stupid intel..