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Conroe E6600 at 3GHz vs Opteron 165 at 3GHz

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Benchmarks are still being done, but a guy over at the guru3d forums has got hold of a conroe cpu.

HERE

Their forums are slow tonight - so give the link a few refreshes if it doesn't work first time.
 
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Due to the limit on number of images per post (15), and the difficulty to compare results side by side I have revamped the review format. I hope you like it!

Note1: ES4: Oblivion and COD2 were run with FRAPs, the results will not be precisely comparable.

Note2: I apologize for the lack of ORB links with the conroe system, futuremark currently does not recognize the CPU

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Specs:
2.4ghz 266x9
2x 64KB L1 Cache (64KB Per Core)
4MB Shared L2 Cache
Revision: B0
Stepping: QLLR

AMD System: ----------
AMD Opteron 165 @ 3GHz
2x eVGA 7900 GT SLI @ 700/800 - Forceware 84.66
2x 1GB G.Skill DDR500 3-4-4-8
DFI NF4 Ultra-D A0 Modded to SLI-D
Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA HDD
OCZ GameXStream 700w PSU

Pics of AMD Rig:
1. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/1048/image0230fd.jpg

2. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/2700/image0258su.jpg

3. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2672/image0260bm.jpg

4. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/3559/image0270py.jpg
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Intel System:----------
Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) E6600 ES @ 3ghz / Max Clocks TBD
2x eVGA 7900 GT SLI @ 700/800 - Forceware 84.56
2x 1GB G.Skill DDR2-800 4-4-4-12
Intel D975XBX "Bad Axe" Mobo
Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA HDD
OCZ GameXStream 700w PSU

Pics of Conroe Rig:
1. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/7563/image0183ph.jpg

2. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4208/image0191kd.jpg

3. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/9020/image0201tj.jpg

FYI those two ^^ say:
Intel Confidential
QLLR ES A4

4. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/3558/image0217af.jpg

5. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8788/image0220rp.jpg

6. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/4756/image0283mg.jpg

7. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4163/image0303kr.jpg

8. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/246/image0310fs.jpg

9. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/7176/image0324lc.jpg

10. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8559/image0338fi.jpg

11. http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/2623/image0346bq.jpg
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Overclocking Results:
To come starting saturday... I will include all benchmarks with the Conroe @ 3ghz as well for a clock for clock comparison.


Super PI 1M:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 29.156s

Conroe @ 3GHz: 17.015s

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


Super PI 32M:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 25m 58.625s

Conroe @ 3GHz: 17m 58.781s

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


AquaMark 3:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 120,655

Conroe @ 3GHz: 162,561

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


3D Mark 2001:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 37,132
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8991290

Conroe @ 3GHz: 49,009

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


3D Mark 2003:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 33,078
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4826258

Conroe @ 3GHz: 36,339

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


3D Mark 2005:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 15,711
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2059939

Conroe @ 3GHz: 17,080

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


3D Mark 2006:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 10,067
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=337584

Conroe @ 3GHz: 10,805

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


PC Mark 2005:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 6,858

pcm211ym.jpg


Conroe @ 3GHz:

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


FEAR Stress Test:
1024x768, 4xAA 16xAF, all max:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: Min 60 | Avg 142 | Max 370

Conroe @ 3GHz:

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


1600x1200, 4xAA 16xAF, all max:
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: Min 25 | Avg 43 | Max 172

Conroe @ 3GHz:

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


Source Stress Test:
1600x1200, 4xAA 16xAF, Everything Maximum
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 134.15fps

Conroe @ 3GHz:

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


Call of Duty 2: Point DuHoc Assault until over the cliffs
1600x1200, 4xAA 8xAF, Everything Maximum
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: Min 23 | Avg 50.189 | Max 102

Conroe @ 3GHz:

Conroe @ Max Clocks:


Far Cry:
1600x1200, HDR-7, 16xAF, Everything Maximum
All maximum with an HDR setting of 7 is the most beautiful and hardware intensive mode Far Cry offers. This is as tough as it gets.
Ultra quality option, Direct3D renderer
Level: Regulator
Pixel shader: model 3.0
Anisotropic filtering: 16×
HDR: level 7
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 55.89 FPS
Conroe @ 3GHz:
Conroe @ Max Clocks:

Ultra quality option, Direct3D renderer
Level: Research
Pixel shader: model 3.0
Anisotropic filtering: 16×
HDR: level 7
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 67.97 FPS
Conroe @ 3GHz:
Conroe @ Max Clocks:

Ultra quality option, Direct3D renderer
Level: Training
Pixel shader: model 3.0
Anisotropic filtering: 16×
HDR: level 7
Opteron 165 @ 3GHz: 61.22 FPS
Conroe @ 3GHz:
Conroe @ Max Clocks:
 
Minstadave said:
Intel System:----------
Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) E6600 ES @ 3ghz / Max Clocks TBD
2x eVGA 7900 GT SLI @ 700/800 - Forceware 84.56
2x 1GB G.Skill DDR2-800 4-4-4-12
Intel D975XBX "Bad Axe" Mobo
Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA HDD
OCZ GameXStream 700w PSU
Click to expand...
But the Intel D975XBX "Bad Axe" mobo is a Crossfire motherboard? It doesn't even support SLI?
 
Very impressive.

Is the Conroe E6600 one of the mid-range CPU's? I as as I'm sure there's a couple above it at about 2.6GHz, 2.9Ghz and an Extreme version at just over 3GHz. Hopefully if it's mid range it could retail for roughly the same price as a Pentium D 950.
 
Conroe will obliterate everything, be cheap and available, What more could you ask for.. Other than a Quad core AMD as a come back.
 
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