Badie05 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I am just wondering if the new 45 nm Penryns are gonna work. I see the new Mac Pro has it so I guess its a good. and the 8800GT aswell? I am asking as I am building a new rig: CORE 2 QUAD Q9450 2.66G 12M 1333 I64 S775 OC to 4Ghz Thermalright ULTRA-120 Extreme 6 Heatpipe Cooler LGA775 Heatsink *Fan Not Included* Acer P243WAID 24IN LCD Monitor 1920X1200 3000:1 2MS VGA DVI-D HDMI Glossy Screen High Gloss Black OCZ Reaperx Hpc Edition PC2-8000 DDR2 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1000 CL5-5-5-18 Dual Channel Memory Kit ASUS P5K3 DELUXE/WIFI-AP ATX LGA775 P35 DDR3 1333FSB 2PCI-E16 3PCI 2PCI-E1 SATA2 1394 Motherboard Logitech Z5500 Digital 5.1 Speakers 500W RMS SILVER-BLACK Analog Coax Optical Logitech G15 2ND Gen Gaming Keyboard USB Black Silver Amber LCD Panel Programmable Backlit Keys ASUS DRW-2014L1T DVD+RW 20X8X16 DVD-RW 20X6X16 DL 8X SATA Lightscribe Black Beige Retail Box reative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Audio 24BIT Sound Card 7.1 PCI OEM Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 3.5IN 500GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 32MB Cache NCQ Hard Drive Antec P182 ATX Black Mid Tower Case 4X5.25 1X3.5 6X3.5INT No PS Front USB Audio Firewire Galaxy GeForce 8800GT Overclocked 600MHZ 512MB 2.0GHZ DDR3 PCI-E DVI-I HDCP HDTV Out OEM Video Card Razer Copperhead Tempest Blue 2000DPI 7 Button Optical Mouse USB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 They both work. Your rig looks intense. I thought the q9450 wasn't out yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I'll guess he either made a typo, or has some sort of engineering sample off ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph363 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 The Q9450 is a yorkfield, penryn is the 45nm mobile core. you should go with a x38 chipset instead of a p38. You will nearly double the bandwidth to your video card with pcie2.0 (your card already supports it). Asus p5e looks to be performing pretty well. What are you planning to power this chip with? I don't think you will be able to get the oc your after if you stick with the rocketfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 penryn is the fabrication process / architechture for the whole 45nm family of cpus, intel just decided to call the mobile cpu after the architechture of all the 45nm chips, 45 nm server is harperfield or sumfin, 45nm is yorkfield. but they are still penryns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 The Q9450 is a yorkfield, penryn is the 45nm mobile core. you should go with a x38 chipset instead of a p38. You will nearly double the bandwidth to your video card with pcie2.0 (your card already supports it). Asus p5e looks to be performing pretty well. What are you planning to power this chip with? I don't think you will be able to get the oc your after if you stick with the rocketfish. I think you mean P35, and I totally diagree. Even dropping current cards to PCIe 1.0 8x makes nearly no difference vs 1.0 16x, so doubling the bandwidth again is utterly pointless (and there are plenty of benchmarks to back this up floating around.) X38/X48 will be obsolete long before graphics cards which actually benefit from PCIe 2.0 bandwidth arrive. P35 overclocks just as well and performs just as well at the same memory timings despite the claimed memory controller improvements in X38/X48. Unless you need to run a Crossfire set-up (which I guess the OP doesn't as they've chosen an NVidia card), X38/X48 makes absolutely no financial sense over P35. It runs hotter, and the boards are much more expensive. The only specific advice I have for the OP is that if you're going to use this as a primarily OS X rig, the X-Fi doesn't really make sense as they'll probably never work under OS X. If you are going to go for an X-Fi, don't bother with the Xtreme Audio as it's not really an X-Fi card, it's just a rebadged version of an earlier Audigy chip. The Xtreme Music used to be the entry level option which was actually an X-Fi (which is what I have), but they discontinued it in the hopes of getting people to buy the more expensive models, I presume. As far as I know, the Xtreme Gamer is the new entry-level part which actually has the full X-Fi chip on board, but it's a half height card like the Xtreme Audio, and it's missing some of the connectivity of it's full-height counterparts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badie05 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 It's coming in March No typos here: MOTHERBOARD Asus P5K3 Deluxe/WIFI-AP PROCESSOR Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66Ghz (OC to 4.0Ghz) RAM OCZ Reaperx PC2-8000 DDR2 4GB CASE Antec P182 COOLER Thermalright ULTRA-120 Extreme HDs Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320GB and 500GB SATA II OPTICAL DRIVE Asus DRW-2014L1T DVD+/-RW GRAPHICS CARD BFG Tech Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB SOUND CARD Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Audio MONITOR Acer P243WAID 24" WUXGA1920X1200 3000:1 2MS HDMI SPEAKERS Logitech Z5500 Digital 5.1 Speakers KEYBOARD Enhanced Logitech G15 MOUSE Razer Copperhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 penryn is the fabrication process / architechture for the whole 45nm family of cpus, intel just decided to call the mobile cpu after the architechture of all the 45nm chips, 45 nm server is harperfield or sumfin, 45nm is yorkfield. but they are still penryns KIKO!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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