Conroe Benchmarks

Well its decisive. The top 3 Conroes crush the top 3 AMD X2s and FXs.

Heres the killer though.

Conroe E6600 is about the same speed as an AMD FX-62. Only it costs $316. The FX-62 currently costs over $900.

Check out www.anandtech.com for their overclock test on Conroe. They got both the E6600 and E6800 to overclock to 4 ghz on AIR.

Thats a 90% clock speed increase on the E6600 near enough. That thing is looking insane. The common consensus is that if you buy a Conroe, dont bother with the E6700 or the E6800. 6700 is $520 and the 6800 is $999.

Way too much considering the 6600 is already on par with AMD's top of the line chip, uses about half the power, runs alot cooler and overclocks to near double its clock speed without liquid cooling.

E6600 is the one to buy dudes.

Last edited by Derivative on Jul-16-2006 at 14:33

yeah i thought the same about it

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Heheh ive been hyping this chip for months(though in the game forum), I pre-ordered the e6600..... 300 dollar chip kills a 1000 dollar chip... Good times we live in lol...

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what is the best chipset to plug this beast into? What is a good noise free low latency board fir this thing, will it be vulnerable to the same pcie issues as nforce4?

Theres not many Conroe chipsets to choose from right at the minute but this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16813128012

seems to be getting the most attention (possibly because its one of the first designed for conroe boards). I think thats the board anand used to get the 4 ghz overclock. Although I would check that article just in case.

Note the release schedule has changed. The E6800 is getting released on the 23rd July. The E6700 and E6600 are coming in mid August now and the budget E6300 in September. I dont know why they have chosen to do things this way but thats the way its going to roll.

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Originally posted by Derivative Theres not many Conroe chipsets to choose from right at the minute but this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16813128012 seems to be getting the most attention (possibly because its one of the first designed for conroe boards). I think thats the board anand used to get the 4 ghz overclock. Although I would check that article just in case. Note the release schedule has changed. The E6800 is getting released on the 23rd July. The E6700 and E6600 are coming in mid August now and the budget E6300 in September. I dont know why they have chosen to do things this way but thats the way its going to roll.

The Gigabyte board is crap i would either go with intel or asus 975 or 965 models... And when they come out maybe the nvidia or the ati r600 chipset. DFI makes a good board aswell...

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Thing is nobody knows what the other boards are going to be like. I dont think Intel has released the 965 or 975 yet.

If Conroe can still pull off 4 ghz overclocks then its going to be sick.

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Originally posted by Derivative Thing is nobody knows what the other boards are going to be like. I dont think Intel has released the 965 or 975 yet. If Conroe can still pull off 4 ghz overclocks then its going to be sick.

You need a rev 304 version of intels 975 badaxxe motherboard also asus has a 975 dh something ..

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HEy guys I have a Q Conroe will supurt DDR 1 or 2 ?

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Conroe is DDR2.