Intel Unveils 16 Next-Generation Processors, Including First 45nm Notebook Chips

[maxtoons.com]

This is it!!!!!!!

I have been holding back getting a Q6600 for 3 months now, waiting for a nice $300 replacment from intel.
But I guss this is what we as consumers get when AMD is standing still "Almost"
A $300 CPU should be quad + 1600 FSB + 12 MB cash + 2.8 to 3.0 frequancy.
Now what I read in Maximum PC is that the Qx9650 "I think this is the one it is factory at 3.0 and 1600 FSB" can be over clocked to 3.6 with no effort at all, not even a better cooler.
But hey AMD is not doing anything about it, so we have to waite!!!!!!

 

[Tatty_Two]

I have been holding back getting a Q6600 for 3 months now, waiting for a nice $300 replacment from intel.
But I guss this is what we as consumers get when AMD is standing still "Almost"
A $300 CPU should be quad + 1600 FSB + 12 MB cash + 2.8 to 3.0 frequancy.
Now what I read in Maximum PC is that the Qx9650 "I think this is the one it is factory at 3.0 and 1600 FSB" can be over clocked to 3.6 with no effort at all, not even a better cooler.
But hey AMD is not doing anything about it, so we have to waite!!!!!!

The QX9650 (3Gig stock) is the extreme version and does have an uprated Intel stock cooler on it, however it retails at over $1000 in the US! (although this chip will hit 4.3gig on the stock cooler according to one of our members here). Of the Two Yorkfield Quads with 12mb L2 cache, now due to release late March both should acheive 3.6Gig on stock air cooling on a 45nm process but neither will have a 1600FSB, they are only 1333FSB but actually, thats not a bad thing at all.

You dont actually have to wait as the existing QX6850 65nm chips also stocks ay 3Gig and has an uprated stock cooler and also runs at 1333FSB, but again, that one is only a few dollars cheaper than the QX9650, they too should get to 3.6gig on stock.

I agree things are not quite as great as I was hoping they would be!