A bit of reassurance please...

[northwestdakota]

Hi guys,

I have studied the forums for a while and armed with this knowledge, I pre ordered my E6600 Conroe and a nice new Enermax liberty 620, I will be getting the what seems to be recommended G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400. I will chosse a motherboard at the end of the month once I have seen the reviews. Now for the question, at the moment I have a old pentium 4 2.8, now I know the Conroe works at 2.4 stock but it is a lot more efficient, so the first question is will the be a big difference between the two?

and the next question is I have just told a friend of mine who seems to really know what he is talking about that I have gone for the E6600 Conroe instead of the 4400 xmd x2, he seems to think this was a stupid thing to do and that there is no real difference between the two. So now my excitement has been some what flattened, so the second question is he right? sorry for being a bit stupid about these things, but hey im trying to learn as much as I can.

 

[FreeStream]

The Conroe chip kicks the backside of both chips, especially when overclocked.


Double the power of your 2.4 P4 and 25% quicker at stock than the AMD, they overclock like mofos and the whole world and his dog wants one

So your mate is wrong

 

[FrankJH]

The Conroe chip kicks the backside of both chips, especially when overclocked.


Double the power of your 2.4 P4 and 25% quicker at stock than the AMD, they overclock like mofos and the whole world and his dog wants one

So your mate is wrong

This is one potential viewpoint

Another is the mobo's might be hard to come by / little choice for a while and they may not get the best out of the conroe until they do. It is also possible that release chips are quite as good as people are predicting.

I would however say that its worth going conroe anyway as from about a week into getting an X2 you will be getting the most out of it you possibly can (ie even with bios updates etc the overclocking potential is fixed) however with such a new chip as conroe (it looks like from previews) that you will already have a better cpu than the X2 is anyway and it should only get better in time

 

[northwestdakota]

Ok, thanks guys I feel a lot better now

 

[Minstadave]

The Conroe was an excellent choice, I'd have gone that road too in your position.

 

[A.N.Other]

Nothing wrong with what you have there at all.

I'm an AMD person through and through (likewise ATI), but given the choice now, I would get a conroe.

I'm sorry AMD

 

[Energize]

The conroe 6600 owns the fx-62 never mind the 4400.

 

[northwestdakota]

Ok now I have gone from feeling better to " I can wait, please Ocuk send me it now!" On a slightly related link, the only components im unsure on is mlb, which I will wait for reviews on at the end of the month and cooler, any suggestions for a cooler, I would really like a air cooler, not much confidence in my own ability with water cooling. Thanks guys.

 

[Stelly]

The Conroe chip kicks the backside of both chips, especially when overclocked.


Double the power of your 2.4 P4 and 25% quicker at stock than the AMD, they overclock like mofos and the whole world and his dog wants one

So your mate is wrong

Couldnt of put it better myself

Stelly

 

[FreeStream]

Couldnt of put it better myself

Stelly

 

[Minstadave]

Ok now I have gone from feeling better to " I can wait, please Ocuk send me it now!" On a slightly related link, the only components im unsure on is mlb, which I will wait for reviews on at the end of the month and cooler, any suggestions for a cooler, I would really like a air cooler, not much confidence in my own ability with water cooling. Thanks guys.

Tuniq Tower if you can find one (rumour is they've broken a machine needed to make them so they're waiting to get it replaced).