A brief German article centres on the cheapest of the upcoming quad core penryn processors from Intel, To see just how far the performance of the family Benjamin goes when working at no less than 3500 MHz. And what better opponent to compare it to than the Q6600?, you may say "the QX9770" is the best point of reference for top performance, and you would be right, so it's also included, as well as several AMD processors. They even find a "simulated 2300 MHz" Phenom X3 (?) among them.

If you consider this clock frequency to be "low", you should start looking elsewhere for a better overclock, because the Q9300 doesn't go much higher without losing stability. The lowest clocked Wolfdales also report a similar behavior in several tests conducted around the web, so Yorkfields made from them don't turn up to be very good.

In any case, why these Penryns don't go any higher than their 65nm Core 2 predecessors, you can make your argument in any way, and the article's authors wanted to show that the more modest of the Q9000 series could beat an extreme  processor that costs more than one thousand dollars. Of course it can, that's what overclocking is good for.

Link: PC Games Hardware.

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