Other than the higher L2 cache,Does the Q9450 have any more benefits over the Q6700?Does it OC higher?I was thinking of just getting a Q6700 because of the high OC 's people get with it,guaranteed GO stepping (some people seems like they are getting B3 even in May and I dont want to play the Go lottery),It comes with a free game for $70 more than a Q6600.Is it worthwhile to spend the extra money on the evasive Q9450.From the few Oc postings I have seen people aren't even reaching Q6600 speeds.Am I missing something.Just because something is newer does that mean it is better?
Advantages of a Q9450 over a Q6700 or Q6600?
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colt1911
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I just started playing around with OC'ing my Q9450 and so changing nothing but the FSB I've been able to reach 3.2 on air cooling. I have been running Prime95 fo 4 hours and everything is stable. Voltage on the cpu is at stock and I going to see if I can push it further before changing any voltages. It does run cooler and uses less power. The Q6600 is a better deal between the Q6700 and Q6600 simply because you can oc the Q6600 to or even past the stock speed of the Q6700 and save yourself some money.To achieve a real high oc on the Q9450 you must have a good board that can reach at least a 500 FSB.Hope this info helps and good luck.
lovely?
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this board i have can do an fsb of 520, what clock would that get me with that processor?
MosIncredible
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Can it do that with a quad is the question
Timo
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Most likely the multiplier will be lowered anyways. If you put the Q6700 at 400FSB with multiplier at 10 it would run at 4Ghz, in theory that is. In real life, I'm sure you'll have to lower the multiplier and up the FSB because it won't be stable on 400x10.
Though I might be mistaking, can't see much interesting Q6700 reviews. Almost everyone on a Q6600 lowers the Multiplier to 8 to get a 3.8Ghz overclock or higher (thus an fsb of 475 or higher).
Ahh ok ,so most of the time you cant use the full 10 multiplier so it really like having just a Q6600 but with a starting clock speed of 2.66 ?
Timo
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Well, if you'd use phase-change or even good watercooling (or the extra extra -200degrees stuff which I can't remember the name of ofcourse) you'd be able to just put the multi at 10 and run an FSB of 400 thus clocking in at 4Ghz. Though be it with a raised voltage on most stuff that's on the mobo.
I'd got with a Q6600 over Q6700 anyday
I'd got with a Q6600 over Q6700 anyday
just a noob
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if you want to do phase change, thats going to cost around 800 dollars for a unit you can run 24/7, and ln2 or dry ice are mainly for benching probably 3 hours or so
royalmarine
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lol id love to see the costs or even the notion of running an ln2 system for a week solid!
Intel_man
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Well, if you'd use phase-change or even good watercooling (or the extra extra -200degrees stuff which I can't remember the name of ofcourse) you'd be able to just put the multi at 10 and run an FSB of 400 thus clocking in at 4Ghz. Though be it with a raised voltage on most stuff that's on the mobo.
I'd got with a Q6600 over Q6700 anyday
You're thinking of the Liquid Nitrogen cooling.