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Conroe benchmarks.

Vegeta

Vegeta

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Hi theres probably loads about but I guess some of you's can help me out, i'm wondering whether I shuld upgrade to conroe once its out, at the moment I have a opty [email protected] doing 31.2secs on superpi with some ocz ram.

The benchmarks i'm looking for are ones that show how it powers a gpu under 3dmark05/06.
I currently have a x1800xt265mb and at stock it scores 9200 on 05, I would be interested to see how a conroe would power the card at stock, any such benchmarks out there? Doesnt have to be x1800xt specific any high end gpu will do.
 
You don't play 3dmark though, a pity in my case as GRAW is half as fast with 2 graphics cards (double fps with 1 graphics card) whereas 3dmark is much faster with 2 graphics cards.

Most people are jumping for joy at the prospect of Conroa but I'm going to see how well the retail versions run in games first.

Hey, your SiperPI score is the same as my dualcore score, ahmm...
 
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juno_first said:
You don't play 3dmark though, a pity in my case as GRAW is half as fast with 2 graphics cards (double fps with 1 graphics card) whereas 3dmark is much faster with 2 graphics cards.

Most people are jumping for joy at the prospect of Conroa but I'm going to see how well the retail versions run in games first.

Hey, your SiperPI score is the same as my dualcore score, ahmm...
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I know I dont play 3dmark but its a benchmark to test systems so i'm not quite sure what your point is.
 
Defcon5 said:
Superpi only uses 1 core.

31secs is good for 2.6ghz, id expect more like 33secs
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Yeah your right, most people on A64 use ram at 200fsb thats why they tend to achieve 33secs with ram at 200fsb, I run my ram on 290fsb thats why I achieve 31secs.
Your dual core cpu wont really do much more that a single core for superpi/games at the moment but in the future it should be great, your 3dmark06 score should be better that utilizes dual core? but thats only benchmark ofcourse but it shows its potential.
 
people really need to get over this retail/ES sample thing. the design for the chips was set in stone probably way over 6 months ago, probo way before that and only changing things a little to get yields up. the performance won't change , its faster but remember this. it won't increase your gaming speed, that much, at all.

yes, reviews will run all the games at 1280x1024 with low detail to get it completely down to cpu limits, thats with say a 7900gtx or something. you will see a difference, conroe's are faster, simple as, no doubt about it, clock better, better prices on dual cores, amd can't compete for cpu tasks(they aren't miles off but who buys the slower chip for same cash?). but when you get the resolution and quality settings up to the point where your framerate is gpu limited most cpu's can handle it.

the difference between a fx62 and a say 3200+ 754 in fps when you're using say a 1900xt in fear at say 1600x1200 2xaa/8xaf will be not more than a few fps, same setups at 1280x1024 and the difference could be 50fps, but you won't game at that level.

when/if companies properly start writing harder physics into games that stress cpu's more than you might start wanting the extra juice there, for now at least if you JUST care about gaming performance upgrading would get you a minimal, tiny increase in FPS.

on the other hand, i do a bunch of encoding, re-encoding, gaming, photo work, design work and the odd bit of rendering. most of that is purely cpu based and pretty much any conroe will offer a good jump in performance which is why i'll be upgrading.

for new buyers, until amd can get the K8L out there will be little point buying them, conroe for performance, or a £60 2.8 p4-d for cheap as possible and still being pretty damned fast as an extra benefit. the dual slot amd systems will be nice, but being as the cheapest dual core ath x2 is £200(give or take) then you're talking twice the price for a cpu just to beat a conroe, and then possibly bigger beefier psu, heat issues, overclocking issues. my take is the dual socket athlon stuff to come is aimed at being able to say its the fastest(a la quad sli) but not really something 99.9% of us will bother with.
 
Vegeta said:
I know I dont play 3dmark but its a benchmark to test systems so i'm not quite sure what your point is.
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The point being are you simply going to go out and buy loads of new hardware just because you'll get a higher score in 3DMark or another benchmark program?
The majority of benchmark programs are flawed and can be cheated - they are also only of any use to allow you to compare one system to another.
They are in no way indicative (really) on how well something will work in the real world.

Until Conroe gets out there and people really start to report back on how well it runs with certain applications/games etc then people can post as many "benchmarks" as they like - I'm just not interested.
Real world performance is all that bothers me.
You don't play 3DMark - so why consider all this new hardware at this stage?
If you do care about 3DMark scores then go for it - get your pre-order in now as you'll be well happy.
 
stoofa said:
The point being are you simply going to go out and buy loads of new hardware just because you'll get a higher score in 3DMark or another benchmark program?
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erm no? whats the point in having a CPU that holds back your system, if it costs nothing to upgrade my system so I can play games better than I will, 3dmark provides a way of knowing whether games will run better on that system, i'm hardly going to know what exact fps some cards get with some games but 3dmark scores i can understand.

Do you see my 3dmark scores in my sig?
 
My god, perfect response. Sticky this and have everyone posts with conroe in the title be automatically linked to this response.

drunkenmaster said:
people really need to get over this retail/ES sample thing. the design for the chips was set in stone probably way over 6 months ago, probo way before that and only changing things a little to get yields up. the performance won't change , its faster but remember this. it won't increase your gaming speed, that much, at all.

yes, reviews will run all the games at 1280x1024 with low detail to get it completely down to cpu limits, thats with say a 7900gtx or something. you will see a difference, conroe's are faster, simple as, no doubt about it, clock better, better prices on dual cores, amd can't compete for cpu tasks(they aren't miles off but who buys the slower chip for same cash?). but when you get the resolution and quality settings up to the point where your framerate is gpu limited most cpu's can handle it.

the difference between a fx62 and a say 3200+ 754 in fps when you're using say a 1900xt in fear at say 1600x1200 2xaa/8xaf will be not more than a few fps, same setups at 1280x1024 and the difference could be 50fps, but you won't game at that level.

when/if companies properly start writing harder physics into games that stress cpu's more than you might start wanting the extra juice there, for now at least if you JUST care about gaming performance upgrading would get you a minimal, tiny increase in FPS.

on the other hand, i do a bunch of encoding, re-encoding, gaming, photo work, design work and the odd bit of rendering. most of that is purely cpu based and pretty much any conroe will offer a good jump in performance which is why i'll be upgrading.
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I'd sticky it if most of it isnt rubbish, I can give the guy some benchies with a cpu at stock (opteron 144 @ 1.8ghz) and overclocked (2.6ghz) on my x1800xt @ 1680X1050 - I can assure you its more than a few fps difference in most games.
 
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