This thread over at Xtremsystems shows how promising the new 45nm quad cores from Intel will be. Intel's pricing charts show that the Q9450 will debut at US$316 and I'll sure that will drop quite a bit through out 2008. There's a good chance that Intel will drop the cost of the Q9450 to either the $213 or $183 price point. I just can't see how AMD will stay in business at these prices. On a overclocking note you can drop a Yorkfield into current P35 motherboards but I reckon overclocking will be difficult. The Q9450 has a multipler of 8x and 1333FSb. With cheap as chips DDR2 800 a standard P35 board will only reach around 450mhz to 500mhz fsb leaving quite a bit of headroom in the new chips.
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