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    Cool HEXUS.reviews :: WORLD EXCLUSIVE! INTEL CONROE BENCHMARKED

    HEXUS.reviews :: WORLD EXCLUSIVE! Intel's Conroe spanks AMD FX-62's botty - for real

    HEXUS has managed to run a complete set of benchmarks for two speed grades of Intel Conroe CPUs in our HEXUS labs - guaranteed free of bias - and we've
    compared their performance to the Presler Extreme Edition 965 and, uniquely, to today's baby from AMD, its Athlon 64 FX-62.
    nuff said? oh, you actually want to know the numbers?... well after doing so, presumably you want to let us know your thoughts here in the HEXUS.community
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    Competition is wonderful. Hopefully AMD will now have more incentive to make progress and/or start going back the the lower prices they had a few years ago. Not to mention Intel should have some great chips. It'll be interesting to see if Merom is relitivly as great as Conroe.

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    Why was quake and splinter cell run at such high AA/AF resolution ?

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    Hmm.. interesting to say the least. I hope AMD can really pull something out of the hat in the coming months.

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    OUchh.... So much for hoping AM2 would be better..
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    ...but what about pricing ? That is absolutely key for nearly all of us.
    However, I can't fail to be astounded by those benchy results They are some of the most significant 'wins' I've seen in a long while.

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    Let me check where's my wallet.. hmn.. 975X mobo and a Core 2 CPU..
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    Wow,

    It's going to be tough to pull myself away from AMD. But with results like that, looks like i'll be heading back to Intel.

    With regards to price......who knows. I wouldn't like to put a figure on that.

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    Thumbs up nICE 2 sEE AM2 Getting The Old Spanking :)

    Made my day - top notch guyz.

    I think the Inquirer need a spanking them self as well: Link

    Intel 4ife

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    Quote Originally Posted by PD HEXUS
    go on... what do you think ?
    I think eating in with the missus for a month or so should gather enough money for an upgrade..

    I'm playing with fire here.. Gosh.. why are 975X board sooo expensive... Anyone know whether Intel's coming out with a Conroe compatible board that doesnt have 2x16x PCI-E slots?
    Me want Ultrabook


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    The new Nvidia 500 series intel edition motherboards sould support conroe. The mobo's should be coming out soon - but i'm not to sure.

    hope that helps

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    THey better do, cs the £150 premium for a board is rather silly..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jagz64
    The new Nvidia 500 series intel edition motherboards sould support conroe. The mobo's should be coming out soon - but i'm not to sure.

    hope that helps
    Any more info on these boards? if they're going support SLi and they're out soon then I'm completely sold and I'll wait until Conroe arrives before upgrading.

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    TBH, I wasn't expecting great numbers from AM2, and I'm not surprised that Conroe's got a performance advantage. All AM2's done is move the same core design over to DDR2, and DDR2 hasn't been a performance booster for any platform. I'm glad that Intel have come back strongly - I think they were getting too comfortable with the idea of competing on market dominance rather than performance. That said, I'd expect AMD to come back at least as strongly, but probably later this year.

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    I'd be really suprised if the SFF Athlon X2 and 64 turn out to be superclockers..

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    hmmm I still think I'll wade out the storm and wait for K8L
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