Conroe runs on i865 chipset

[Nelly]

3dmark being a gaming benchmark and all

Seen as I'm totally oblivious, care to explain to me what difference 1000 points would make for example? in comparison to someone elses score? What difference would that make in a game?

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

3dmark being a gaming benchmark and all

rofl - you are getting more and more sardonic Mr Welshtom.

congrats

 

[Raikiri]

Seen as I'm totally oblivious, care to explain to me what difference 1000 points would make for example? in comparison to someone elses score? What difference would that make in a game?

Well thats relative to the other persons score isnt it... 1000 more could be 10% faster or 50% faster.

Also depends on the game your playing, for example on quake 4 with the dual core patch my 3.6ghz 805 would probably out perform a 3ghz opteron but in HL2 it wouldnt due to lack of dual core optimisations.

 

[Nelly]

So basically 3D Benchmark is just a way of saying "look at my hardware penis, looks a lot bigger than yours. . . . . "

 

[welshtom]

So basically 3D Benchmark is just a way of saying "look at my hardware penis, looks a lot bigger than yours. . . . . "

And being used for its original purpose.

Benchmarking your PC so that you know how well it will stack up in games.

IE. if you get 1k. it wont play games, if you get a high score (use the orb to compare) you know it will run games fairly decently

Tom

 

[Deathwish]

As it Conroe gets closer I can sense a lot of AMD "Fanboys" starting to get a bit tense

Looks all good so far, hope to get one as soon as I can

 

[Cyanide]

At 2.66 Ghz, that conroe gets double what my single core Opty gets @ 3Ghz (3DMark '06 CPU score)



I'm looking forward to Conroe...

I've managed to get 2068 out of my 4200+ before... albiet it'd probably keel over and die if it were to have pushed it further... but still

 

[welshtom]

As it Conroe gets closer I can sense a lot of AMD "Fanboys" starting to get a bit tense

Looks all good so far, hope to get one as soon as I can

I hope you dont mean me in that statement

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

So basically 3D Benchmark is just a way of saying "look at my hardware penis, looks a lot bigger than yours. . . . . "

or just a way to measure how much increase you are getting out of your system from stock.

/goes off to XS where people are just get on with clocking

 

[Deathwish]

I hope you dont mean me in that statement

What, me?

 

[welshtom]

 

[Sir Random]

Well I'll be getting a conroe soon after they're released (I'll give it a week or two for prices to settle). That's assuming that AMD don't have some ultra secret competitive chip, but that's extremely unlikely.
Even if the conroes aren't quite as good as the hype suggests, I can't see anything outperforming them in the next 12 months.

 

[Cyanide]

Even if the conroes aren't quite as good as the hype suggests, I can't see anything outperforming them in the next 12 months.

Kentsfield is out in 8-9 months