Q9450 coming soon!

As I mentioned below, the Q9300 isn't very compelling as a replacement for our current leading "affordable" quad-core option, the 65nm-based Q6600. We're really excited to hear our distributor tell us that we should be able to add the Q9450 to our lineup in less than a week! Of course, we won't count those chickens just yet, but I think it's likely to be true. The Q9450 has a massive 12MB cache, which may or may not turn out to equate to improved framerates, but we'll be benchmarking ASAP. The real appeal is the 8x multiplier and the 2.7GHz starting point, which should finally give us a sub-$400 quad core that can reliably run above 3.5GHz. Stay tuned...