review of q9450 with overclocking

[wonderlust]

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/intel_q9450/

[PeterStoba]

Read this yesterday, I'm a member of there, good reviews

I now want one after the summer

[wonderlust]

I will be sticking to my q6600 for now, maybe something new next year...

[mac124]

yeah i am having secong thoughts now as they don't seem to be the overclocking monsters people had hoped, the gains over a similarly clocked q6600 aren't worth the upgrade imho.

[solidsteve]

well i'm glad i held off my build till now sure the Q6600 is good but considering its a new 45nm chip at 3.7ghz

that jumped from a amd sempron 2.1ghz single core chip to a quad 3.7ghz chip, it's going to be running at worp speed

[wonderlust]

assuming that yours in your choice of board will be able to do that!

Its always safer to run a little slower save burning out the chip.

[mac124]

i run my q6600 @ 3.6 24/7 so a 9450 wouldn't be a massive step up if running @ 3.7 definately not worth the £100 or so for the upgrade.

[Aaron]

but going from an XP2400+ to a Q9450 would be worth it.. ;) :D

[mac124]

Hmm i dunno that XP2400 is a beast of a cpu ;)

[Aaron]

It was great in its day... its just that day was a long time ago... :lol: