Conroe - Whos thinking of getting it?

[helmie]

Ooooh, after finding out its on LGA775, im all excited. How many people are thinking of getting it? Hopefully theres a cheap version, but im betting its gona be VERY expensive. Anyway, a quick poll to see.

 

[Geoff]

Nope, unless it costs under $100

 

[helmie]

LOL! try times it that by 15 at least lol

 

[ItlanChode]

Nope, I just got a 4200+ and I'm perfectly happy with it.

 

[dragon2309]

Nope, I just got a 4200+ and I'm perfectly happy with it.

perfectly happy now, yes,, have you seen the benches done with an OC'ed FX60, the conroe wooped it by around 50% on ALL tests. At last somethign for the intel fans to be happy about, go INTEL.

go ahead, take a look, http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=2&id=1845, this is also the stabndard version of the conroe core, NOT the EE edition that will be released, so long AMD, lets see a REAL competition between this and AM2..... let the battle commence...!!!!

dragon2309

 

[Ku-sama]

me? upgrade to Intel? naw....

 

[ro0kie]

we'll see if AMD can pull through with their AM2 processor, hopefully they'll have something up their sleeve, if not then i guess i'm sticking with INTEL

 

[elmarcorulz]

The thing i dont like about those benchies is that

a) Intel wouldnt let anyone look in the device manager...call me suspicous, but something fishies going on there.
b) The benches were run on "medium" graphics with the res. at 800 x 600. Who's to say the the FX-60 would still be way behind at a higher res. with everything turned up full. I mean, you look at other benchmarks for other things, and one will lead by a huige margin on low graphics, but only does a bit better on more intense tests.

However, that rant was on about the F.E.A.R Bench, the encoding looks mighty fine indeed.

 

[LITHIUM]

i don't think it is that much better, and it is pointless to upgrade IMO

 

[Geoff]

me? upgrade to Intel? naw....

stop being a fanboy

 

[tweaker]

dailytech.com

 

[Geoff]

wow there not as expensive as i thought, however the one there benching is the E6700, which also costs $530. I'd like to see how the E6300 compares.

 

[elmarcorulz]

My god, thats pretty cheap! Wait....i did read that right yea?

 

[apj101]

guys let not get excited about M2 too much, apart from ddr2 that not much new to shout about.

 

[Dr Studly]

i'm getting w/e is better at the time i buy my PC...
i dont understand the launch date tho...

 

[Geoff]

It has the (???) because they either dont know, or they dont want us to know yet.

 

[Dr Studly]

what does the Q3'06 mean?

 

[jancz3rt]

what does the Q3'06 mean?

Means the third quarter of 2006

JAN

 

[elmarcorulz]

guys let not get excited about M2 too much, apart from ddr2 that not much new to shout about.

We're getting excitied about Conroe, not AM2

 

[Dr Studly]

are the conroes quad-core?