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Benchmarking Intel Conroe Core 2 X6800, E6700 and E6600

hopefully the benchies will be true so that AMD arnt that far behind if any looking at some of the benchmarks

This one in particular shows that AMD are stil good even against conroe :cool:
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fenderbass86 said:
I gotta ask why though, cause if a 3800+ comes down to about £130, the low end Conroe should be very similar in price and beat the pants off the X2.
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You seem very quick to judge the chip. Wait until it is out and 'properly' tested and AMD have sorted early AM2 bugs out. Then judge
 
fenderbass86 said:
I gotta ask why though, cause if a 3800+ comes down to about £130, the low end Conroe should be very similar in price and beat the pants off the X2.
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COST, if switching to conroe from 939 you will have to buy a new mobo, ram and cpu and if us AMD fanboys can by cheap X2s then whynot
 
The results seem slightly out of kilter for me, tbh.

First off, the universally acknowledged fastest stock gaming chip out there - the FX-62 is beated in one or two of the gaming benches by the Intel 955EE... something which I've only seen on that particular website.

According those benchmarks - which are testing a Core Duo as a Conroe substitute - those with brand new AMD X2 systems don't have too much to cry about as it really does appear to be a mixed bag.

However, as others have posted: there's no point getting het up at this point in time because Conroe has not been exhaustively benchmarked by numerous different websites. I think the hot air needs to be vented in this case. While still impressive, it's not impressive enough for me to start putting exclamation marks, numerical 1s and abbreviated references to the Big Guy upstairs...
 
Explicit said:
Them game benchies look wrong to me...very wrong...
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The Intel kit has 2GB of RAM, the AMD kit has 1GB. I'm not totally sure what difference this will make on some of those benchmarks, but for me it makes Tweaktowns comparison useless in this case.
 
Its nice to see Intel giving AMD a run for there money, im buying an AM2 chp since i cant wait for conroe but when conroecomes out it can only mean stiffer competition which at the end of the day will benefit me when i upgrade again :)
 
Hi all,

I would recommend reading through the comments at the end of the linked review. In addition to the AMD platform having half the RAM, they have also used an ATA HDD on it. Little things I suppose, but if you cannot trust them to play fair with the hardware, what is to stop them messing around in the BIOS?

I was going to wait till conroe compatible boards came out, then get an 805D to hold me until I could get hold of a conroe chip. However this kind of thing makes me think we won't see a fair comparison till conroe is availible to the steaming masses, so I may end up with an AM2 X2 instead. Conroe may very well end up giving you more bang for your buck, but at least I can read an accurate review of an X2 tonight.

Still as ashmanq points out there are no losers in this competition, particularly with the coming price drops
 
thewilson said:
but at least I can read an accurate review of an X2 tonight.
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That's because they're already out. Even so, AMD knew that AM2 wouldn't have any benefit over 939 but they didn't blow the previews of their new product line out of of proportion, and I don't think Intel have with their Conroe processors. They know they have something fantastic (at last), and they know that once a fair review gets done upon release, if it doesn't perform as well as it's hyped up to, then people will go for a huge discounted X2 CPU instead. Why would Intel risk that? I truely think that Intel will have turned things around after relase day.
 
aztechnology said:
The Intel kit has 2GB of RAM, the AMD kit has 1GB. I'm not totally sure what difference this will make on some of those benchmarks, but for me it makes Tweaktowns comparison useless in this case.
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thewilson said:
I would recommend reading through the comments at the end of the linked review. In addition to the AMD platform having half the RAM, they have also used an ATA HDD on it. Little things I suppose, but if you cannot trust them to play fair with the hardware, what is to stop them messing around in the BIOS?
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So wait, AMD were actually at a disadvantage in that review, despite being so close to Conroe? This seems odd to me. AMD should have been ahead? :eek:
 
fenderbass86 said:
That's because they're already out. Even so, AMD knew that AM2 wouldn't have any benefit over 939 but they didn't blow the previews of their new product line out of of proportion, and I don't think Intel have with their Conroe processors. They know they have something fantastic (at last), and they know that once a fair review gets done upon release, if it doesn't perform as well as it's hyped up to, then people will go for a huge discounted X2 CPU instead. Why would Intel risk that? I truely think that Intel will have turned things around after relase day.
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Intel would risk it to increase the hype surrounding conroe. Increase the hype and more people will be willing to get their hands on a conroe compatible board when they are first released locking them into an intel system. I think that is small potatoes compared to what the extra hype may do to OEM vendor sales though.

In the past Intel has blown their products WAAAYY out of proportion before they were released. I honestly don't know whether they are doing that now but I don't think anyone will know for sure either way until you can buy them from places like OcUK.

Skewed reviews like the tweaktown one don't do much for intels' reputation as far as I am concerned and that is the main reason I've decided to skip on Intel this go round. It may turn out to be a stupid decision, but I will have a well reviewed system at a comparable price (after the price cuts) and I won't have to fight with every other speed affectionado to get one. In short I will be sure of what I am getting.
 
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