Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 is one of the lower-end quad-core processors Intel will launch next year. Q9300 runs at 2.5 GHz, but comes with only 6MB L2 cache. Intel slides have stated that the price of this piece of hardware will be around $270, is slated for arrival in January, and we can pretty much consider it the Q6600 of the next generation; a quad-core for the mid-range segment. Recently, overclocker Coolaler got a set of quad-cores sent over by some generous person and among them there was a Q9300. He was able to overclock it to 3.7GHz (495×7.5), SuperPi 1M stable with time of 13.532 seconds. He also ran some Everest memory benchmarks.
