Thread: q9300 vs q6700
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Old 05-09-2008, 10:31 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Prob not... prob very close if not less. The Q6700 clocks quite high. Over 4.00ghz I believe.
your partially right.

the only reason today's q9300's cannot overclock higher then the older series is solely motherboard technology. 45nm is inherently better at overclocking, but since motherboards cant handle fsb's of 2400mhz, the clocks are severely limited.
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