Originally Posted by -ChEM-
from gaming benchmarks it seems that you would need to get 2.4-2.6ghz out of a conroe to beat 2.8-2.9ghz out of an AMD, at current pricing that is impressive
thats going to be a £300 chip beating a £600 chip which is good but given the overpricing of the FX chips, its not the revolution that the hype is suggesting
if AMD sell their current dual core range at £150-300 (3800+ to 5000+) theyll be competitive and what is also important is that almost everyone has an AMD 939 now... of those the single-core users are the ones wholl NEED an upgrade an AMD x2 means spending money on a new chip, whereas conroe is a new chip, memory and motherboard all at once
add to this, while theres still life in AMD single core chips, theres still a hell of a life left in dual core chips with multithreading soon... who is going to want to spend all that money on an entire barebones when it will barely make a difference without a new gpu
conroe is great but why does anyone who is strapped for cash need it with GPU limitations as they are and will be for the foreseeable future?
This is very sensible thinking.