Conroe out July 23rd!!!

Goody_GTI · 1 Jun 2006 at 13:03

theres a 6600 on fleabay at the mo for £370

Sinister · 1 Jun 2006 at 21:20

AWPC said:
As Intel are now holding back the 3.33Ghz EE + 1333FSB .

Anyone know when this will be out then?

stigggeh · 1 Jun 2006 at 21:27

easyrider said:
But in real terms 9 seconds for new tech is not that outstanding IMO.

9 seconds on what ? is that 9 seconds on a job that will take 1min then yes its a great improvement imo, if however its 9 seconds on a 1 hour job then its not,

just throwing '9 seconds isnt much' around does not help me come to a conclusion.

Infinity · 1 Jun 2006 at 21:35

9 seconds on reading the thread comments on the previous page

it was 75 vs 66 secs

easyrider · 1 Jun 2006 at 22:10

stigggeh said:
9 seconds on what ? is that 9 seconds on a job that will take 1min then yes its a great improvement imo, if however its 9 seconds on a 1 hour job then its not,

just throwing '9 seconds isnt much' around does not help me come to a conclusion.

read the thread again and watch the video!

Pr0t0c0L · 1 Jun 2006 at 22:42

from being slower 15-20% in games to faster 15-30% games
is a real achievement for INTEL

garyh · 2 Jun 2006 at 05:03

Infinity said:
9 seconds on reading the thread comments on the previous page

it was 75 vs 66 secs

When you times those values by real time values instead of small files on encoding say; a full divx movie the results start to become massive.

for example:

75 seconds becomes 7500 seconds
66 seconds becomes 6600 seconds

that's a massive 15 minute difference... etc quite big i'd say.

fenderbass86 · 2 Jun 2006 at 05:50

Whilst I understand where you're coming from, I'm not too sure if it would work out as simple as that. I do agree that over the course of minutes/hours encoding, the gap would start to slip away from AMD. Well done to Intel if Conroe lives up to it's potential.

DanF · 2 Jun 2006 at 08:38

Not sure why poeple with an opty 170 @ 2.8ghz etc would even consider getting a conroe apart from the "playing with new tech" bug. Your cpu's are fine, don't worry, they just wont be at the very top anymore

But this is all very good news for peeps like me with an A64 3200+ @ stock speeds or even an older 2500 xp-m etc. Potentialy it's a great chip for the money.

easyrider · 2 Jun 2006 at 09:05

DanF said:
Not sure why poeple with an opty 170 @ 2.8ghz etc would even consider getting a conroe apart from the "playing with new tech" bug. Your cpu's are fine, don't worry, they just wont be at the very top anymore

But this is all very good news for peeps like me with an A64 3200+ @ stock speeds or even an older 2500 xp-m etc. Potentialy it's a great chip for the money.

Having had a Intel P4 3.4ghz before I got my opty I have some spare ballistix DDR2 lying around.

It would be a shame not to get a mobo and conroe for a bit of fun and compare both rigs against each other.For relatively little outlay.

What will a E6600 and a new mobo cost me?
Not that much.

I can then actually see with my own eyes how much faster in real terms the conroe will be be,how it overclcocks etc... and run some real world tests.

DanF · 2 Jun 2006 at 09:18

easyrider said:
Having had a Intel P4 3.4ghz before I got my opty I have some spare ballistix DDR2 lying around.

It would be a shame not to get a mobo and conroe for a bit of fun and compare both rigs against each other.For relatively little outlay.

What will a E6600 and a new mobo cost me?
Not that much.

I can then actually see with my own eyes how much faster in real terms the conroe will be be,how it overclcocks etc... and run some real world tests.

Fair enough, just seems like you have a lot of posts in this thread saying that it won't be worth, not much faster etc.

fenderbass86 · 2 Jun 2006 at 10:03

easyrider said:
What will a E6600 and a new mobo cost me?
Not that much.

Probably £350 minimum. Although current 975X motherboard's supposedly support conroe, they are all rather expensive, a lot of them are over £150 :eek:

.

Layzan · 2 Jun 2006 at 10:57

I tip my hat to Intel, it’s a great step forward which has made me consider future upgrades using their CPU’s. I have an FX57 at present and have thought about an upgrade round winter so I’ll be observing those with the Conroe and the response of AMD.

It’s too early in the day to hear AMD doom talk, please…..

Infinity · 2 Jun 2006 at 12:28

I havent used Intel since the days of 486's so they must have done something different recently.
Is this Conroe going to be dual core or is that another version in the pipeline

ajgoodfellow · 2 Jun 2006 at 12:30

It's a Dual Core CPU

Infinity · 2 Jun 2006 at 12:43

Imagine what the 3dmark06 score is :cool:

hrm google says -

ATI X1900XTX Crossfire watercooled @ 765/882

3DMark05: 22,466 (WR) | 3DMark01: 69,402 (WR)

fenderbass86 · 2 Jun 2006 at 12:54

So far; the best 3dMark scores are:

01 - 69402 - (Conroe E6700 @ 3.87GHz, X-fired X1900's)
03 - 44010 (FX60 @ 3.3GHz, SLi 7900GTX's)
05 - 22466 (Conroe E6700 @ 3.87GHz, X-fired X1900's)
06 - 12768 (Conroe E6700 @ 3.8 GHz, X-fired X1900's)

taken from xtreme systems.

Infinity · 2 Jun 2006 at 13:10

Yea its only 6 times faster then my rig, pah
I wonder if they powerfull enough to benefit from a physx card, theres a real test

Mr Jones · 2 Jun 2006 at 13:26

Infinity said:
Yea its only 6 times faster then my rig, pah
I wonder if they powerfull enough to benefit from a physx card, theres a real test

I would actually change that around to:
Would a Conroe + x1900xt benefit from a Physx Card?

easyrider · 2 Jun 2006 at 13:34

Thats nothing I get over 12k!

So i don't know what all the fuss is about.

Oops I forgot I get over 12k in 05 not o6 lol