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Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S and Q9550S, Burned In

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News Posted: Mon, Mar 30 2009 1:08 PM

At just 65W, Intel's new
S-series quad-core processors have a TDP (thermal design power) rating that's
30W lower than traditional Core 2 Quad chips, which are all rated for 95W.  In
fact, the only other 65W chips Intel offers are from the Core 2 Duo line-up of
dual-core processors. The beauty is, these new lower power chips perform just
like true quad-cores of course but produce a lot less heat and consume less
energy.

High performance quad-core chips with the thermal envelope of
dual-cores? It almost sounds too good to be true.  Let's look and see if they are...




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bob_on_the_cob replied on Mon, Mar 30 2009 8:54 PM

Nice review! Throw one of these bad boys in that Zotac ITX board and have a heck of a rig.

One question I may have missed it, but were you using the stock cooler in the temps and overclocking tests?

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MikeL_HH replied on Tue, Mar 31 2009 3:00 AM

As noted in the article, the temps were taken with the Silverstone NT-06 heat-pipe air cooler with the stock fan set to 900RPM. The overclocking results were conducted using the stock cooler at stock voltage!

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bob_on_the_cob replied on Tue, Mar 31 2009 4:14 AM

Thanks Mike!

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kid007 replied on Tue, Mar 31 2009 9:50 PM

pretty good review. i'm actually updating mobo and cpu and core 7 seems to be the way!

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digitaldd replied on Thu, Apr 2 2009 2:49 PM

I have been intrigued by these chips for a while now, but I'm not usre the $100+ price premium over the higher power consuming chips is worth it.

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mentaldisorder replied on Sat, Apr 4 2009 10:03 AM

That's because it's not.

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