Great article. But these CPU's are so expensive. Just hope they push down the price of their older Wolfdale cores.

good review.

This should really kick the balls of AMD even with the advent of K10...

this chip has a large improvement on it's power consumption...

http://techreport.com/articles.x/13470/15

probably one of the simplest and best reviews I've ever read. Thanks, looking up for more.

Good first look. ... and nice graphs. The Yorkfield vs Kentsfield as baseline @ 3.0 GHz graph as a brief summary visual is excellent.

I appreciate the simple & accurate yet information dense graphics you guys do ... I'm getting sick of the trend these days to post dozens of graphs meaningless trivial experimental data, yet not producing meaningful visuals of summarys or conclusions. No forest, just trees.

(Now ... f you would only ditch absolute temp and simply show performance relative to the lower bound of deltaT in your heatsink reviews, you'd be perfect. heh :P)

ST

Excellent Review.

Intel kicks butt as always. move along.

the graphs/tables used in this review, although not applicable to most comparison reviews, was executed very well here.

I only wish Unreal Tournament 3 was tested too :(

can you Please add an Print Button to your web site (so we do not have to keep pressing next or pick an number Tomshardware does it now and so does Aandtech as well)

back to review

Nice Review. Would have liked to see you underclock it and show some benchies of how a Q9450 would compare to my current E6600 in DX10 based games.

I guess AMD is finished next year.
No more competition for Intel. And being the only CPU manufacturer for computer makers like HP, Apple, Acer, etc., we should expect higher prices.
Maybe AMD and VIA should merge...and be bought out by Samsung or Sony or IBM.

yaaahhhh!!!! smackdown phenom!

I wish I could see the faces of AMD fanboys (such as tech and jorge) as the read thru the reviews around the net! priceless!!

lol
85oC!? R U kidding?!
that's what you get without using scythe mugen with quadcore jerQUADs!!!1!!!
(60oC !MAYBE! @ over 4.2 GHz...)

Looks to be a winner in my books

Lower heat output with less power draw is the way of the future

Ridiculous prices, are u guys on drugs ? who needs thas sh1t
who cares about the fastest specially when faster these days mean 2%-5% faster for 3 times or more the price of reasonable offering. you are encouraging them to drive the prices even higher
I cant believe there is people who buys this sh1t, when u can get a little slower for 1/3 the price.
you should talk more about value as most of us wont go for the fastest. but instead something that can do everthing but a little slower or gives a little less fps.

peace.

i wish to have one.

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It can do 4.5Ghz...

please show us the benchmark of core 2 yorkfield vs amd phenom

Seus filhos da puta!!!