[Merkwürdigliebe]

Originally Posted by nOcLuE98

no, the q9400 is only .5 more. the q9450 is 8.5x

I dont know, the motherboard is holding the little thing back.

If the q9450 can drop to some decent prices, I think it will end up the OCers choice. Faster fsb, more cache.. because I am pretty sure the q9450 steps up the cache right?

Originally Posted by Merkwürdigliebe

Q9450 FSB = 1333MHz

QDR = 1333MHz/4 = 333.25MHz

333.25MHz x 8 (multiplier) = 2666MHz = 2.66GHz

If the Q9450 had an 8.5x multiplier, its default clock would be 2.83GHz, which it's not, the Q9550 has an 8.5x multiplier and it's got a default clock of 2.83GHz. Look for yourself:



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List of future Intel Core 2 microprocessors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeah more L2, I know... but whatever, I don't think there'll be a major difference over 8MB and 12MB to be quite honest