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Please explain this Conroe business to me!

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Basically, I see all the mentions of Conros, what is the best, do they all have two cores inside? How much faster is Core2Duo over Core Duo?

Ta for the words of wisdom, I've not kept up well recently! Are they all nicely overclockable?
 
Conroe (AKA Core2Duo) basically rules the roost. It's faster, cheaper and consumes less power than pretty much anything else on the market. Oh, and it overclocks like nothing else on earth (put it this way the E6600 model almost always gets to 3Ghz from 2.4 with nothing more than FSB tweaks even on relatively mainstream motherboards).

The 'Duo' tag means dual core. There's a couple withe the 'Quad' tag meaning quad core. There may be a future 'Solo' release as well but only for the very low end.

Core Duo is basically a dual-core Pentium M, not worth it in comparison.
 
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Ah, nice! Cheers for the explanation. I'll check out the OcUK store for the rankings of each processor. :D

What are the best GPUs to pair up with them? Minimum power supply you'd recommend?
 
These days, the GPU is what's gonna burn the power. If you feel like splashing out a Geforce 8800GTX and an overclocked E6600 would be a good pairing (it'd match the last generation multi-GPU setups and leave the FX-62 choking in the dust). If you're gonna do that then at least a 450-500 watt PSU is on the cards.
 
With an 8800 and an overclocked 6600 I would say at least a 500w PSU. Normally I'm not one to over estimate PSU's but that 8800 sucks the juice something chronic!
 
Dureth said:
With an 8800 and an overclocked 6600 I would say at least a 500w PSU. Normally I'm not one to over estimate PSU's but that 8800 sucks the juice something chronic!
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Not really, the 8800GTS often uses less power than an X1950XTX. The 8800GTX doesn't use that much more. Source: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2870&p=21

Basically anything that powered an X1950XTX will power an 8800 series easy. However, 30A on the 12v rail (combined if more than one 12v rail) is recommended by NV. That's usually a 500W PSU as you said :)
 
Boogle said:
Not really, the 8800GTS often uses less power than an X1950XTX. The 8800GTX doesn't use that much more. Source: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2870&p=21

Basically anything that powered an X1950XTX will power an 8800 series easy. However, 30A on the 12v rail (combined if more than one 12v rail) is recommended by NV. That's usually a 500W PSU as you said :)
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do remember that an x1900xtx consumes more power than an x1950xtx. so anything that can run an x1900xtx will run a 8800gtx fine.
 
imho there's no point getting the 6600 if you are going to overclock, as the 6300/6400's are clocking just aswell if not better! (See my sig) as of yet i haven't seen a 6300/6400 not reach 3ghz and beyond!
 
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