Conroe @ 1600*1200

A2Z · 20 Jun 2006 at 22:09

im sure this has been posted before

Hesky82 · 20 Jun 2006 at 22:17

A2Z said:
im sure this has been posted before

yup these results have been copied and pasted countless times, hope the guys test results are reliable cuz its causing quite a stir.
Still cant get over how much of an improvement it makes in modern games at “realistic” quality levels. Would like to see more independent test from other people though.

FC-PJA · 20 Jun 2006 at 22:56

Pretty good results there for Oblivion. However, I wonder what the difference will be in the towns and outside parts of the game? Those figures were only taken from the starting dungeon, till the king leaves you.

Bennah · 21 Jun 2006 at 09:37

NathanE said:
Yup, Intel have been dropping hints for months that supply shouldn't be a problem. Remember B0 (production) steppings have been rolling out of the fabs for a good couple months now. They must have stock piles of the things... enough to drive any OCer insane

Yea, I have no doubt that Intel have a shed load of these to go around.

However, this a HUGE upragde, just like the 7800 GTX 512MB were over anything else out there. nVidia could'nt make the 7800 GTX 512MB's fast enough.

Basically, everyone will want one of these. Thats for the custom market. Conroe is gonig to change a lot of minds of AMD fan boys and change them to the darkside. Intel are going to be back on top for sure for the time being.

The normal consumer market is a different story. I can see a lot of Conroe systems being built for christmas by Dell etc etc.

I just hope that Intel just make enough for the custom overclocking market instead of making the normal consumer market thier priority.

Time will tell. I hope I just get some soon then I would be happy.

fenderbass86 · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:40

Bennah said:
I just hope that Intel just make enough for the custom overclocking market instead of making the normal consumer market thier priority.

Me too, but the money they would make off Dell will surely be larger than the number of custom buyers no matter how many of us there are.

Durzel · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:55

fenderbass86 said:
Me too, but the money they would make off Dell will surely be larger than the number of custom buyers no matter how many of us there are.

Indeed.

Intels first priority will be to satisfy Dell.

Gibbo · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:57

Hi there

The future is looking very bright for Intel and possibly ATI too.

OcUK already has the DFI 975X Conroe uber overclocking motherboard en-route. We already set all our allocation with Intel to make sure good stocks arrive.

fenderbass86 · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:17

Gibbo said:
Hi there

The future is looking very bright for Intel and possibly ATI too.

OcUK already has the DFI 975X Conroe uber overclocking motherboard en-route. We already set all our allocation with Intel to make sure good stocks arrive.

Are you sure you'll get enough, like Bennah said, everyone will want one. That doesn't mean you can charge more though!

Gibbo · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:31

fenderbass86 said:
Are you sure you'll get enough, like Bennah said, everyone will want one. That doesn't mean you can charge more though!

Prices will be determined by supply and demand. If demand is 1000 and we can only get 100 they most certainly will not be given away.

However is supply is 10,000 and demand is only 1000 the our prices will be the best.

Any company that wishes to survive will buy and sell intelligently.

We will be getting very good allocation as Intel know we more sell more AMD X2 and FX series than any other Etailor in the UK.

Explicit · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:34

Thanks for the heads up Gibbo.

killer_uk · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:44

Thanks a lot Gibbo, although the question in my mind is when can we pre-order the CPUs

Bennah · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:49

Gibbo said:
Hi there

The future is looking very bright for Intel and possibly ATI too.

OcUK already has the DFI 975X Conroe uber overclocking motherboard en-route. We already set all our allocation with Intel to make sure good stocks arrive.

Not sure about the DFI Conroe board. Not really seen anything done with it. Looking forward to the Asus boards though.

Any signs of them coming in soon? Pre-order? Out of stock atm.

When we likely to see the Conroe's to hit the OcUK store Gibbo? Going to have the whole range?

Thanks for the info Gibbo. Glad you take notice of these kind of threads and help us out when ever you can.

fenderbass86 · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:59

I hope there's a big selection like AMD has.

Explicit · 21 Jun 2006 at 13:09

fenderbass86 said:
I hope there's a big selection like AMD has.

Given time, there will be. Mobo manufacturers know how popular conroe will be.

Durzel · 21 Jun 2006 at 13:34

Bennah said:
Not sure about the DFI Conroe board. Not really seen anything done with it. Looking forward to the Asus boards though.

Any signs of them coming in soon? Pre-order? Out of stock atm.

When we likely to see the Conroe's to hit the OcUK store Gibbo? Going to have the whole range?

Thanks for the info Gibbo. Glad you take notice of these kind of threads and help us out when ever you can.

DFIs board looks crap, sorry to be blunt. DFI haven't exactly got a stellar reputation for producing amazing Intel-based boards, their AMD ones on the other hand are top notch...

Asus P5W DH looks pretty awesome, if a little over-specced (if thats possible).

Abits offerings have possibly the worst board layout I've ever seen (IDE connector next to PCI slot, random SATA ports all over the place), etc.

Intels "BadAxe" board is as solid as a rock but require some patience to overclock them effectively. I'd say that this board is the best for people who don't want to mess about.

VaderDSL · 21 Jun 2006 at 13:36

Durzel said:
DFIs board looks crap, sorry to be blunt. DFI haven't exactly got a stellar reputation for producing amazing Intel-based boards, their AMD ones on the other hand are top notch...

Asus P5W DH looks pretty awesome, if a little over-specced (if thats possible).

Abits offerings have possibly the worst board layout I've ever seen (IDE connector next to PCI slot, random SATA ports all over the place), etc.

Intels "BadAxe" board is as solid as a rock but require some patience to overclock them effectively. I'd say that this board is the best for people who don't want to mess about.

Re: Abit, aye they lost the plot post NF2 and seem unlikely to come up with anything decent

shame really.

I can't wait to see the Asus boards a few months down the line

hopefully then I'll have some money saved up

fenderbass86 · 21 Jun 2006 at 13:46

I'd like to get an MSI board, does anyone reckon the Intel ones will be as good as the AMD versions?

Stelly · 21 Jun 2006 at 14:26

Very nice

Stelly

Pr0t0c0L · 21 Jun 2006 at 14:29

funny that this conroe has bigger jump in fps than you would get buying a new gpu

fenderbass86 · 21 Jun 2006 at 14:52

Pr0t0c0L said:
funny that this conroe has bigger jump in fps than you would get buying a new gpu

Conroe is pushing the bottlenecking back, not getting rid of it completely but allowing a decent gfx card to be used to it's limits.