Reviewers Liked
- Four cores
- Highly overclockable
- Reasonable price
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Half the cache of the rest of Intels quad core line
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5GHz Socket 775
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Intels Core 2 Quad Q9300 is the start of its Q9xxx line of four core processors, and runs at 2.5 GHz.That puts it around 7% behind the 2.66 GHz of the next model up, the Q9400, but when we measured it, we found the performance difference to be closer...
By DigitalVersus on
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Intel’s Core 2 Q9300 processor is fabricated using the 45nm Penryn process that we first saw in Bennys review of the , which is a lovely CPU if you dont mind forking out £480. Thankfullly, the Penryn process is also used in more down-to-earth...
By Trusted Reviews on
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The Core 2 Quad Q9300 costs £56 more than Intels cheapest quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Its clearly the runt of new litter too, with its 6MB cache (half the amount of the other 45m CPUs) and low clock speeds. Its only marginally faster at...
By Custom PC on
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The Q9300 offers robust overclockability and good performance in a wide range of products. For the budget minded, its one of the best price/performance CPUs you can...
By PC Mag onAs a comparison to the existing quad core Intel CPUs, there really is not much of a comparison. The Q9300 just barely performs better than the Q6600 in the comparison field of processors. In many ways, it is handicapped by the lower amount of L2...
By Overclockers Club onMay 26, 2008 Since the launch of the first model at the end of October, Intel 45nm Core 2 processors have created quite a stir. First of all, there has been the positive aspect of first rate performances while on the negative side availability has...
By BeHardware onWin MSI VGA, Motherboard, Laptop in this Overclocking Contest! Intel C2Q Q9300:The Q9300 was released a few months ago and has been updated a few times since. The series started out with the C0 stepping, moved on to C1 and recently, the M1 stepping...
By MadShrimps onAs our benchmark results and power consumption tests have shown, Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q9300 represents a solid upgrade over the Core 2 Quad Q6600, which we’ve come to know and love. Even though the Q9300 has a decreased cache size and only...
By HotHardware onThe Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 processor might be the entry-level 45nm quad-core processor, but the performance numbers sure doesn't suggest that!...
By Legit Reviews onIn our recent review of the Phenom X4 9850, I said AMD had a small window of opportunity with the Phenom thanks to the slow rollout of Intels 45nm desktop processors. With arrival of the Core 2 Quad Q9300 at multiple online vendors, that window is...
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