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I will eat a whole egg if they are as mentally cheap as the US$-UK£ conversion says. Shell and all.
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Conroe Benchmarks
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They would probably just round it to £200, or maybe even more 
Although its a pretty certain thing that Conroe will own all other CPUs on the Market.. This benchmark is running two PCs supplied by Intel. I wouldnt trust this benchmark. Let the SuperPI scores speak for themselves as they can't be faked in this way.. But this benchmark *could*, not saying it is, be inaccurate.
But I still think Conroe will own everything
and thats coming from a former AMD fanboy.
But I still think Conroe will own everything
and thats coming from a former AMD fanboy.
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easyrider said:
Most can be clocked to that speed on just air cooling
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OV3RCLOCK3R said:Most can be clocked to that speed on just air cooling
Might be a BIT early for a comment like that, as all that we have seen so far have been pre-release test samples.
I bet AMD have sum technology up their sleeves that will beat Conroe, they just havn't had to reveal it yet as Intel have always been pants in comparison. Seems like Intel have looked at AMD tech or something as Intel cpu's have allways been much higher MHz and higher temps, now its more like an AMD.
I dont know what im going to do though, the first PC i built was an AMD and its been a great rig, so i dont know if moving to Intel for my next PC would be the best move. Especially if AMD hit back with a chip that mashes Conroe up. I have a winchester 3200 and 6800GT at the moment so will definatly need to upgrade in the near future but i think i will wait to see what happens before i go rushing in.
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I dont know what im going to do though, the first PC i built was an AMD and its been a great rig, so i dont know if moving to Intel for my next PC would be the best move. Especially if AMD hit back with a chip that mashes Conroe up. I have a winchester 3200 and 6800GT at the moment so will definatly need to upgrade in the near future but i think i will wait to see what happens before i go rushing in.
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An ostrich egg, and I'd be impressed.monkeypants said:
But like you, I can't see these being anywhere as cheap as a straight $ to £ conversion would be.
Personally, I'd like to see more 64bit benchmarks with these chips.
AMD had the edge over Intel in 64bit, and I'd like to see if the perfomance is as great with Conroe when running 64bit as it is in 32bit mode over K8.
Who would have thought it a largely AMD leaning forum like overclockers now raving about INTEL chips!
Never thought I would see the day.
Conroe will be my third Intel rig having had a:
s478 2.4ghz P4
s775 3.4ghz prescott
And then the best rig out of the lot my opty 2.8ghz dual core monster!
Intel again with conroe but I'll be keeping my opty for the time being its just to good not too.
But conroe looks to good not to get and overclock, and it will be interesting seeing the two do things side by side.
Never thought I would see the day.
Conroe will be my third Intel rig having had a:
s478 2.4ghz P4
s775 3.4ghz prescott
And then the best rig out of the lot my opty 2.8ghz dual core monster!
Intel again with conroe but I'll be keeping my opty for the time being its just to good not too.
But conroe looks to good not to get and overclock, and it will be interesting seeing the two do things side by side.
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Maybe it appeared to be an AMD leaning forum because AMD have the fastest cores.easyrider said:
I see it more as a "top performing cpu" leaning forum, and therefore it's natural that they would move to conroe.
Only fanboys are brand-loyal (ignoring actual performance).
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Thats not completely true though is it.
My HT p4 3.4ghz was a better video editing workstation than a similar specced AMD 64 rig.
AMD was better for games but not what I wanted to use my pc for at the time.
Hence why I went intel before the dual cores hit.
Yes the Northwoods were great. I seem to remember the 2.4 was very popular for OC'ing, and then came the hunt for the 3.0C 30 capper ! Funny how a couple of years later another 2.4 Intel is getting the OC'ers drooling again.
I still have my P4C800-E Del mother board with a 3.4EE in, a great MB and CPU even if a bit dated.
I too can't wait for Conroe. Not read much about MB's for it though, I see the NF5 AM2 MB has 6 Sata connections. Imagine RAID 0, that would be a very fast array, not the safest admitted, but very fast.
Jack
I still have my P4C800-E Del mother board with a 3.4EE in, a great MB and CPU even if a bit dated.
I too can't wait for Conroe. Not read much about MB's for it though, I see the NF5 AM2 MB has 6 Sata connections. Imagine RAID 0, that would be a very fast array, not the safest admitted, but very fast.
Jack
I think that must have been about 2 years ago when 9800pro's were all the rage and so was getting 1gb of ram, oh wait - that's my 2 year old rig i'm running now (and of course I had an asus p4c800-e with that too, i've downsized to m-atx now though)Sem said:
Conroe looks great, will probably be my upgrade, although Im not really that fussed as it'll be too expensive for a while!
