Conroe = par with AMD in gaming !

[rotten2dacore]

heh anyone else grin when they read the new conroe gaming review on the main page?

heh grats intel you finally made a good gaming pc.. but its only as good as the stuff already out.

knew those huge canned benchmarks were on the shaddy side of town.

granted Conroe may be great in encoding and other tasks but intel still cant dominate gaming atleast like AMD has.

4x4 for the gaming win soon.

ya its a happy amd fan post but its needed after listenign to intel people say conroe was the 2nd coming

 

[b1lk1]

When games become more CPU dependant, Conroe will make AMD bleed. But by then, AMD will have K8L out and they can counter Intel. It is a cat and mouse game. Right now, Intel is definitely that cat. They got theirs working first and they will reap the rewards. The sad thing is that alot of people with high end S939 dual core systems are upgrading to Conroe and it will not help their gaming experience at all. The GPU's do all the work. I was into benchmarking hardcore but have grown very tired of it and trying to keep up. That really is the only thing Conroe can bring to the table right now, increased benchmark scores. Once you get over 80FPS in games, I dare say noone could tell the difference. Conroe is great for S478/Socket A/S754 users to upgrade to, but us S939/AM2/S775 guys need not bother. Unless of course you love to spend money to make your E-penis look bigger on Futuremark or whatever benchmark makes you happy.

 

[HookeyStreet]

Unless of course you love to spend money to make your E-penis look bigger on Futuremark or whatever benchmark makes you happy.

LMFAO

 

[drade]

Yep Intel wins again..... I love it.... Im getting one soon...

 

[{JNT}Raptor]

Yep Intel wins again..... I love it.... Im getting one soon...

With your setup......It's a logical upgrade.......as stated above though......It's a useless upgrade for existing 939 machine owners.

It took Intel 2yrs.......and Intel owners have suffered Looooong enough.

 

[drade]

With your setup......It's a logical upgrade.......as stated above though......It's a useless upgrade for existing 939 machine owners.

It took Intel 2yrs.......and Intel owners have suffered Looooong enough.

Yes I mean upgrading to a conroe from my 478 will be a huge step in my opinion. One thing is iv'e always sticked intel to being my main priority, I want to go dual core amd for once, but saw how well this conroe is, changed my mind instantly. Im very excited to have one of these.

 

[Alec§taar]

Intel's latest CONROE release wins MORE THAN JUST GAMES THOUGH

See subject-line/title above, & take a peek @ ANY of the numerous reviews we cite here in the forums - the superiority of this CPU family is NOT solely restricted to gaming either...



* Hey, I am currently an AMD user too (Intel as well in other system here)... do I like knowing that if I waited 3-6 months, I would have had to ABSOLUTE FASTEST THERE IS? No...

It's only a "temporary King of the Hill" status, anyhow - history in this field shows us that!

(BUT, we make do, w/ what we've got, & make the best of it (hence, o/c'ing & system tweak/hack/tune stuff, right?)).

Still, I had to suggest the Intel stuff above... Consistence across every review vs. CPU's like I have, & even the Fx-62 stuff from AMD is only showing me that Intel's got a good one this round!

APK

P.S.=> Nobody stays ontop forever, including Intel, & the past 2-3 years now have shown us this... someone said "cat & mouse" above, & were right, only a matter of time & work before AMD comes out w/ something 'that little bit better' in most areas vs. Intel! apk

 

[drade]

See subject-line/title above, & take a peek @ ANY of the numerous reviews we cite here in the forums - the superiority of this CPU family is NOT solely restricted to gaming either...



* Hey, I am currently an AMD user too (Intel as well in other system here)... do I like knowing that if I waited 3-6 months, I would have had to ABSOLUTE FASTEST THERE IS? No...

It's only a "temporary King of the Hill" status, anyhow - history in this field shows us that!

(BUT, we make do, w/ what we've got, & make the best of it (hence, o/c'ing & system tweak/hack/tune stuff, right?)).

Still, I had to suggest the Intel stuff above... Consistence across every review vs. CPU's like I have, & even the Fx-62 stuff from AMD is only showing me that Intel's got a good one this round!

APK

P.S.=> Nobody stays ontop forever, including Intel, & the past 2-3 years now have shown us this... someone said "cat & mouse" above, & were right, only a matter of time & work before AMD comes out w/ something 'that little bit better' in most areas vs. Intel! apk

Correct, technology moves fast and freely. I hate waiting with a passion, but conroe just opened my eyes. Im not saying amd sucks at all, I got an amd turion laptop I love it! Amd athalon xp 3000+ love it. I mean just new stuff is always better, but it movess so fast it aint even funny.

 

[magibeg]

I've already begun saving up for a nice little conroe system. Going to go with the E6600 (the extreme edition is a bit out of my price range) then i'ld just have to wait out for a few months until vista (hopefully) gets released along with the new dx10 video cards . Next few years are going to be good i hope

 

[Deleted member 24505]

ave you seen the benchies on toms hardware

if people thought intel was gunna take amd's thrashing lying down they were wrong.i've had an amd system and it was ok,but my current pent d is better.i am not biased either way.if amd come up with a better chip i will switch to that too.that connis IS impressive tho.65watt max power on all connies.

 

[rotten2dacore]

The Core 2 Extreme X6800 has been overclocked to 5.2GHz by Coolaler and set a SUB 10 SECOND SuperPi_1M run! The record now stands at 9.828 seconds

 

[CjStaal]

That happened a while ago with a ES.

 

[gR3iF]

no its done several time that someone pwnend on conroe 10 seks in 1m super pi

please be up to date read www.xtremesystems.com



AND the conroe is doing well against any amd cpu a 6600 beats a fx-62 in all test

price: 6600=330 euro fx-62=1000 euro



any questions?

 

[gR3iF]

update:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59753
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107212
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107206
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107203
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106772&page=2
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106285
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106685



Any Questions Any Comments Any Cups?

 

[CjStaal]

noice, I deserve a beating. I'm getting a 6600 since it's the cheapest with a 4mb cache, and obviously pwns

 

[gR3iF]

jup its like a 3700 which was a fx-57 ^^

i will get the same cpu too end of this month

 

[Alec§taar]

Well, here is another review (dated 7/14/2006) on the E6700 model of the Intel Conroe

See subject-line/title above, & this URL below for a read:

Intel E6700 Core 2 Duo : Introducing the new Core:

http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=459



* Off to read it myself over a cup of coffee, while the brain begins its "Boot Process" here today...

APK

P.S.=> Guys, I am convinced by this point (by the sheer weight of the numbers in TONS of reviews from many sites) that Intel's got a serious "winner" & new kingpin of CPU's coming out in this new CONROE family...

INTEL's "Conroe's" just consistently win across the boards on most all of the tests I have seen (especially the "HIGH-END" model in the E6800)... not just gaming ones, but all others as well in all categories.

E.G.-> When I see the CPU I have coming in mid to near last (if NOT last) on these tests? It almost "boggles the mind" to me how quick these new CPU's must be... kid you not! apk

 

[rotten2dacore]

AND conroe oc-ed like heaven...

 

[gR3iF]

JUP ;P


you have problems to push a amd over 3 gig and the first people oced there conroes no es
to 4 gig on air

 

[rotten2dacore]

I'm going to build a new computer, 4 my brother during the price war between Intel and AMD. In order to AMD to compete, they must lower the FX line to a lower price than Intel's Core Duo 2 processor. Looks like the E6600 out perform FX-62 in 9 out of 10 tests. Since, E6600 will be priced around $320, I will only go for FX-62 if it is about $290 or cheaper.

What do you think?

 

[gR3iF]

the 6600 its for me just the fact that you can clock that intel way higher even on air

 

[Tatty_Two]

Yep Intel wins again..... I love it.... Im getting one soon...

When you say "again" can you remind me the last time they won?

 

[Deleted member 24505]

i'm not sure but i think it was the pIII coppermine intel last won with,the conroe has a touch of pIII and netburst i believe.
forgive me if i am wrong lol

 

[gR3iF]

the p4 the first p4 on intels 478 socket was way faster then amds first durons and palomino core only the athlon xp with barton core was a good challenge for the p4

 

[15th Warlock]

When you say "again" can you remind me the last time they won?

I remembe Cyrix taking the performance crown from Intel for a very short time with the 686 processor (this was way before VIA bought Cyrix), which was faster than the Pentium 166Mhz procs of the day, then Intel introduced the 233Mhz Pentium proc with MMX, and they "won" the top place again