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Intels new cpu will be coming out in the 3rd quarter of 2006. Its based on the 'core' architecture and outperforms AMD64 in everything. The 'core' architecture has absolutely no disadvantages. The only thing AMD has left is the integrated memory controller.

Anyways, this thing is hella fast. Half life 2 runs at 165fps. In contrast a current high end Alienware rig runs at 102. The 2.6ghz one will cost around 500 bucks and outperform an fx60. Just imagine...normal people will be able to buy what are now high end systems.

Personally i dont think AMD is going to let themselves get steamrolled over. They might have a surprise in store for us but who knows.

Maybe this will put prices down a bit so I can buy a cheaper computer

But this looks pretty awesome, and that's coming from an AMD fanboy.

500 dollars is too much for a processor for me, though I'll stick with an Athlon 64 3700+ or something =\

Same.


They got way cheaper ones that still outperform some of todays fastest cpus.

Core E6300 - 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $210 - Q3

Yeah, that one is pretty cheap, but I wonder if I'd be better off getting the Athlon for about the same price.
Well, it does outperform it so meh :\

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3700BNBOX - Retail for $235.00 on newegg.

Hmmm, I've kept up with the whole Core stuff myself. Some blogs claim to have working core processors, but I'm still waiting for real websites to have reviews. The whole world is waiting for real benchmarks. I've seen Intel fanboy blogs have incredible benchmarks, AMD fanboy blogs have worse than A64 benchmarks, and some sites that say it's better than A64 but not by much. Then again, you have to see what kind of tests are being run. Intel itself ran tests that had an "unidentified" AMD FX60 @ 2.8 GHz, which was suspicious. Can we also forget how they used ATI drivers that were "optimized" for Intel processors? What about doubling the L2 cache? Sure, it does Super Pi faster, but what about real-world performance? I'm skeptical at best about the Core architecture. Rest assured that AMD hasn't been sitting still since they developed their K8 architecture.

In fact, I remember one site (an actual site) posting that the core server processors were a little slower than current AMD Opteron offerings.

If we could just get everything to run on superpi we should be good.

I dont doubt the benchmarks because it was tested by different people and nobody would go through the effort to photoshop. But ill have to wait and see what AMD counters with especially when we move to 45 and 65 nm.

What about heat problems? As soon as it comes out i will install it in my new microwave. Ill be able to cook things 30 seconds faster. OMG thats a 25% performance increase for my pizza rolls.

One of the reasons I think it performs so fast is because it has a FSB of 1333Mhz (!!!!!!) thats almost a 1/2 FSB-CPU clock ratio.

Yeah the E6000 series has 1066 mhz, which is still a lot. -_-

If I were to get one it'd be the E6300, it's the cheapest out of the E6000 series and still performs great

Core E6300 - 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $210 - Q3

I'd rather stick with a regular AMD before I know that this doesn't blow up if under wrong conditions.

Speaking of exploding processors...
http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/01/07/explod...ron-vaporizing/

I have yet to see some useful applications that take advantage of multicore proccesors. Its nice that I can run Doom3 ad and virus checker in the background, but how does that make doom run any better? Also, when are any goo video encoders going to take advantage of the newly ascertained power?

*starts hooking up old computer*

Background OS tasks. Also some video card drivers have a little dual core support.

Oh plz. Why would intel make a processor that doesnt work?

N!gga please, it's intel.

Then dont get AMD products either because they blow up when you overclock them also. Why do you think Intel leaves the extra room for overclocking.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=98115
^---Conroe gets new 3dmark06 record...and this is just on air cooling.

Yeah, that's why I have my Opteron 165 overclocked to 2.6 GHz on stock cooling. I mean, AMD doesn't leave any room whatsoever for overclocking! 800 MHz is, after all, nothing to brag about. It's just running about where an FX-60 does on stock speeds.

What i want is this.
Water cooling
Pentium D 805 overclocked to 4.1Ghz (Yes, you can).

I dont need no Conroe when i can double the speed of my processor!

You have fun with that. The money you save from the cpu you can use to buy an expensive overclocking motherboard to make sure your pc doesnt fry in a few months. And 260 watts at idle....wtf? Thats more than a normal system at full load. Your bills will go through the roof.

Conroe uses 65 watts.

260 watts for full load? That seems a bit... low.

Simple. If you didn't have that second processor your first processor would be running both the game and the other processes on the same processor. Splitting it up boosts peformance.

By being able to take all the background tasks on the second cpu you free up the processor so all it has to deal with is the game.

Also in Q4 they did release a patch that would offload some of the shadow calculations on the second processor giving a major boost in performance.

I said at idle. At full it uses around 500.

Ummm... you said 260 watts was more than a normal system's full load.

Thats beside the point. 260 is still alot.

No it isn't, that seems low.

Most PSU's are around 450W now, you better have a good motherboard if it's going to 500.