Wolfdale Arrives: Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Review

[veg1992]

Penryn Arrives: Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Review

check this thing out!!

 

[Invisible]

wow they got it to 3.6 w/AF7, i dont think thats much better than qx6850...

 

[meat_helmet]

Its about what i expected...not a huge performance gain. Looks like 5-15% in most cases. Think i might wait a while with my Q6600...

 

[kobe24]

not worth the money better of gettin a q6600 go and oc'ing to 3.6, like i did

 

[veedubfreak]

If you have a q6600, as ive been saying all along, there is not reason to replace it with a penryn. I'm going to wait until nehalem gets a die shrink to 32nm and the boards/ddr3 are mature.

 

[Akubane]

I've got a quick question.

Has anyoen heard if the QX6850 will drop in price any when the QX9650 is released for sale? Since the 9650 is only around $1k. And the 6850 is the same >.> 1100$ at ncix -.-.

If it drops to 7-800 ish I might consider getting one later on XD

 

[veedubfreak]

Dont expect anything with the word extreme to come down in price anytime soon.

 

[Akubane]

gotcha XD I won't bother with it then.

I just find it odd that the older chips will be the same price as the new one. Intel shooting itself in the foot again imo

 

[veedubfreak]

Nah look at what happened with the old xx00's when the xx20's and xx50s came out. The newer faster cpus were cheaper than the old ones.

 

[NosBoost300]

if anyone remembers.. the penryn ES on xs have been hitting 4.0+ on air ..... these reviews never seem to try to oc to incredible lengths...