Conroe Release date?

easyrider · 18 Jun 2006 at 16:59

Devious: check your email

Kesnel · 18 Jun 2006 at 17:32

easyrider said:
So if I get one from this guy,what mobo do I get?

If the DFI Infinity is in stock when they appear on the site next week get one of them.

subxero · 18 Jun 2006 at 18:06

Devious said:
Just got a reply from the seller, he say he will ship as per my instructions

Now, should I take the plunge or wait 5 weeks lol

Buy

VoG · 18 Jun 2006 at 20:29

Devious said:
Now, should I take the plunge or wait 5 weeks lol

lol. tbh ide wait until you can lay your hands on a must have mobo that'll do the chip justice.

Super Tigers · 18 Jun 2006 at 20:53

I think the Gigabyte GA_965P_DQ6 that OCuk have for £186inc vat will do very nicely with 12phase (24mosfet) power VRMs all cooled passively and quad bios for ultimate bios protection sounds very tempting :eek:

check out VR-zone preview of this beast!!

VR-zone preview

Now that looks like the dog's danglies to me

Rob H

Lt Goody · 18 Jun 2006 at 21:24

That looks very nice m8 so is it better to go for 965 or 975 chipset or doesn't it matter.

Devious · 18 Jun 2006 at 21:28

975 are supposed to be the better clockers and I think will support SLI/crossfiore.

easyrider · 18 Jun 2006 at 21:31

well I have just bought a conroe WOOT! :eek:

JUst the mobo now.

Devious add me to msn.And what mobo you getting?

Robert · 18 Jun 2006 at 21:51

I've come out of posting silence to ask how? I won't be posting again after this, but I will read *how* you got it. Engineering sample per-chance?

Kesnel · 18 Jun 2006 at 21:54

Robert said:
I've come out of posting silence to ask how? I won't be posting again after this, but I will read *how* you got it. Engineering sample per-chance?

He got it from a certain well known auction site.

Duke · 19 Jun 2006 at 08:07

Looks like memory timings don't affect performance much on Conroe -

http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?cat=cpu&id=456&pagenumber=2

NathanE · 19 Jun 2006 at 09:09

Duke said:
Looks like memory timings don't affect performance much on Conroe -

http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?cat=cpu&id=456&pagenumber=2

Of course they don't. Conroe's prefetching has been massively improved. Prefetching is where the CPU determines in advance that a page of memory is going to be required soon and preemptively puts in a memory read for that page so it is brought into the L2 cache. And the 4MB of L2 also helps a lot.

Drazic · 19 Jun 2006 at 10:15

Alright guys i'm home now, thnak god but well out of it due to lots of pain inflicting and the painkillers giving me some odd feelings. I'm off to eat a horse, sleep and then i'll be back.

If you all have questions get them up togther and clearly for my ill benifit and i'll come back latter and answer them for you. Hows that sound?

Oh Stepping 4 B0 does 3.7ghz air cooled easy dual prime stable!!!

Stepping 5 is pointing to RRP and my Contact @ Intel has confermed that 5 is production

See you in about 4 hours or so

Pete ZZZzzzz!!

NathanE · 19 Jun 2006 at 10:37

Drazic said:
Alright guys i'm home now, thnak god but well out of it due to lots of pain inflicting and the painkillers giving me some odd feelings. I'm off to eat a horse, sleep and then i'll be back.

If you all have questions get them up togther and clearly for my ill benifit and i'll come back latter and answer them for you. Hows that sound?

Oh Stepping 4 B0 does 3.7ghz air cooled easy dual prime stable!!!

Stepping 5 is pointing to RRP and my Contact @ Intel has confermed that 5 is production

See you in about 4 hours or so

Pete ZZZzzzz!!

B0 stepping is production. A0 was the sample/ES stepping.

Let's see some bench screenshots of your chip then...

Duke · 19 Jun 2006 at 13:16

NathanE said:
Of course they don't.

Was only pointing it out for the rest of us...

Jay_t · 19 Jun 2006 at 14:34

Duke said:
Was only pointing it out for the rest of us...

Thats fair enough mate, seems like we don't need the 375 quid DDR2 after all.

The 211 quid corsair DDR2 (2gb set from OCUK) should do very nicely.

NathanE · 19 Jun 2006 at 14:40

Duke said:
Was only pointing it out for the rest of us...

I didn't mean it like that

Drazic · 19 Jun 2006 at 17:30

A0 has bearly shown as ES

B0 has been the ES stepping, fact B0 Stepping 4 QLLO is the full stepping

RRP is BO/A1 Stepping 5 QLLO

Duke · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:57

NathanE said:
I didn't mean it like that

Didn't think you did.. just wanted to make sure

Duke · 21 Jun 2006 at 18:28

Another preview with SLI results - http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=265

Final Thoughts

I originally set out with this processor to see if Intel was indeed attempting to pull one over on us with their "benchmark sessions" they have been holding across the country, but instead I found that Intel has been underselling their own product if anything. The Core 2 Duo E6700 tested here simply swept through the benchmarks, leaving everything in its wake; I can't wait to run an X6800 through the paces to see how it performs.

If AMD's team hasn't started perparing for this yet, they should be starting right about now. And if any readers haven't been hyped about the coming of Conroe, you should start that about now too.