Hi Neo-Forum'ers.

Penryn is upon us.

Resident chipologist William Henning puts the QX9650 through its paces, and runs tons of benchmarks.

Coming in at a massive 28 pages, we have all the goods on Penryn.

You can check it out here:

Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Launch & Review - 45nm Yorkfield aka Penryn is here!

The lower power consumption and virtualisation improvements make Penryn really interesting for the server Xeons. Actually lower power consumption is good for everyone, including Folding@Home. This launch kind of has something for everyone .

Price? Availability?

Any other models coming out of Penryn like an x9600 or something that will be sub 400 dollars?

I doubt you will see anything soon under $300 that is at 45 nano meters. Still looks good, but question comes to usage really... I have a Core 2 Extreme currently (not overclocked QX6700 and is very very cold) and pushing the CPU above 50% is quite hard with even the latest games at full graphics and processing... basically a dual core at 2.66 GHz could handle the latest games at full power without too much of a problem. So if people need to get such a processor I think it's needs consideration of what you are actually getting and why you are getting it. It is of course the step in the right direction for the market but I would not advise people to spend the huge amounts of money for such a processor unless they know exactly why they are getting it ^^;;.

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I doubt you will see anything soon under $300 that is at 45 nano meters. Still looks good, but question comes to usage really... I have a Core 2 Extreme currently (not overclocked QX6700 and is very very cold) and pushing the CPU above 50% is quite hard with even the latest games at full graphics and processing... basically a dual core at 2.66 GHz could handle the latest games at full power without too much of a problem. So if people need to get such a processor I think it's needs consideration of what you are actually getting and why you are getting it. It is of course the step in the right direction for the market but I would not advise people to spend the huge amounts of money for such a processor unless they know exactly why they are getting it ^^;;.

Its expected in January 2008 that there will be a $266 penryn dual core with 6MB of L2 cache, and a $316 quad core variant with 12Mb of L2 cache. Google it.

http://www.pureoverclock.com/images/news/intel_penrynchart.jpg

http://www.pureoverclock.com/story.php?id=1489

Google search for "penryn prices"

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Can anyone give me advice as to how to go about achieving a 3.6ghz clock?

No but here`s how to get 4.5Ghz
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I don't deny the prices but I saw something that said Jan 20th not the 8th and it was more recent, this Penryn chart is 3 months old. Wolfsdale overclock really nice even though its a sample, 4.7 on air can't wait for water benchmarks.

- Christine