AM2 or conroe

im more of a AMD fanboy but for now i would say get conroe.

But i must say sofar conroe has really only been judged by its numbers who knows how it preforms. (except u kusama)
 
Well...AM2 is a socket and Core 2 Duo(codenamed Conroe) is a CPU. The main difference between AM2 and 939 is that AM2 can use DDR2 RAM, so get that if you're hell bent on using DDR2 RAM. Now, the Conroe(i'll say conroe because I don't want to type Core 2 Duo) beats AMDs high end CPUs from what I've seen and at a good price too. Get the Conroe, excellent performance for a good price.
 
depends on your budget. generally for the best performance you should get conroe though.
its a better designed chip, and though the fsb will limit the quad core version the dual core version will not be bottlenecked by it. not to mention, conroe supports the SSE4 instruction. im not sure what types of advantages it entails, but its better to support SSE4 than not to support it.
 
Look at the performance you can get for price. Conroe will have limited availabilty which will drive prices higher than MSRP but that it is available at all means an X2 (or Pentium D) will cost dirt.
 
its for gaming well into the future and I'm planing on updating the CPU more then the mobo so socket types a BIG choice right now
 
lethalforce said:
its for gaming well into the future and I'm planing on updating the CPU more then the mobo so socket types a BIG choice right now
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and chipset, people always thing that just bcause they have the right socket type they will automatically be able to put in the next cpu on that socket. Not always true, ~90% of 775 socket users cant use the new core 2 duo
 
Yasu said:
Core 2 Duo(codenamed Conroe) is a CPU.
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Not all Core 2 Duo are codenamed Conroe, as the Core 2 Duo Txxx series are codenamed Merom, and the Core 2 Duo E6400, E6300 and E4300 are codenamed Allendale.
 
Not all Core 2 Duo are codenamed Conroe, as the Core 2 Duo Txxx series are codenamed Merom, and the Core 2 Duo E6400, E6300 and E4300 are codenamed Allendale.
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But if we used those names then there would be a lot confusion wouldn't there? Refering to the Core 2 Duo as Conroe is a bit simpler. Merom is the codename for the mobile processors, Allendale is the codename E4300. The E6400 and E6300 were under the Conroe codename, not Allendale.
 
Yasu said:
Allendale is the codename E4300. The E6400 and E6300 were under the Conroe codename, not Allendale.
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Now, are you completely sure about that?
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Here's the article:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/07/14/intel_core_2_duo_processors/1.html

Oh, and here's another article you might want to check out:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/26/intel_core_2_market_strategy/
The Register said:
The 'Allendale' processor makes its appearance on the roadmap, as the Core 2 Duo E6300 and E6400, both with 2MB of L2 cache and clocked at 1.86GHz and 2.13GHz, respectively.
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