Lowest priced Yorkfield, Q9300 to sell for $270
 

Last Friday we mentioned that the lowest priced Core 2 Quad Q9450, 12MB quad core processor will sell for $319. Core 2 Quad Q9450 works at 4x2.66 and Intel plans to sell its Core 2 Quad Q9300 clocked at 2.50GHz with memory cut down to 6MB for $270.

This is the CPU that should replace Q6600 with its 2.40GHz clock and 8MB cache memory, with FSB 1066MHz that is currently priced at about $270. Core 2 Quad Q9300 is a 45nanometre CPU and will have the memory size cut down from 12MB to 6MB but this should not affect most of the tasks CPUs do.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...25&Ite mid=35

smart move to put off the overclockers from their cheap CPUs, low multi and cache are a turnoff

They probably make extra cash by reducing the cache and increasing the FSB.


Q9450 is going to be a new Q6600, or even a Q6600 on crack because the lower power consumption and 4 Ghz easy are real turn-ons