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Intel Conroe! (pg. 2)
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by JBDreamerie
haha, nice.
but actually, intel conroe is the codename for the new processor chip that is going to be released later this month. it blows all other chips out of the water.
the medium priced chip at 316, the E6600, blows the best AMD chip out of the water.
it just means computers are getting faster and faster... |
Gawd...i don't even know what my laptop's got. It's an XPS M140. Any idea how good that chip is in comparison to others? |
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| wizniz |
meh thats allllright. i thought it might be better.
mine is definetly 3.4ghz and ive had it for 4 years. |
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| JBDreamerie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Gawd...i don't even know what my laptop's got. It's an XPS M140. Any idea how good that chip is in comparison to others? |
i think that's 2 GHz |
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| Sunsnail |
JBD, you may be confused. 2.4 is definitely not the "standard" for intel chips. My computer is 2 years old and is a 2.8. :)
AMD chips have a much lower ghz rating although they still perform at the same level as intel. As far as I know intel's prescott p4's are up to 3.8ghz.
According to wiki the conroe "will not stress designs based on extremely high clock speeds but rather improvements on other CPU features, including cache size and number of cores." This pretty much has been AMD's stance for a while. |
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| JBDreamerie |
| quote: | Originally posted by wizniz
meh thats allllright. i thought it might be better.
mine is definetly 3.4ghz and ive had it for 4 years. |
that might be possible, but the thing is you can't just look at pure speed. you also have to look at FSB speed.
for example, some of intel's past chips have been 3.4 GHz or something, with a 533 MHz FSB speed.
AMD's chips however have been something like 2 GHz with a 1033 MHz FSB speed.
there's a slight difference, but it makes a big change in the long run |
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| JBDreamerie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
JBD, you may be confused. 2.4 is definitely not the "standard" for intel chips. My computer is 2 years old and is a 2.8. :)
AMD chips have a much lower ghz rating although they still perform at the same level as intel. As far as I know intel's prescott p4's are up to 3.8ghz.
According to wiki the conroe "will not stress designs based on extremely high clock speeds but rather improvements on other CPU features, including cache size and number of cores." This pretty much has been AMD's stance for a while. |
yea, see the post i just posted |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Gawd...i don't even know what my laptop's got. It's an XPS M140. Any idea how good that chip is in comparison to others? |
Not that I'm a computer novice or anything. I've done courses on microprocessor/microcontroller programming. It was fun writing assembly level instructions in hex!
But these days its too boring to follow up on microprocessors unless u intend to use them. And I don't. For laptop selection I went for the price and not the processor ;) |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by wizniz
meh thats allllright. i thought it might be better.
mine is definetly 3.4ghz and ive had it for 4 years. |
are u talking about a laptop or desktop ? |
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| Azz3D |
| quote: | Originally posted by wizniz
what hz are expected? seeing as 3.4ish is the standard now |
I don't know if you've been living under a rock for the past 5 years, but clock speed doesn't matter anymore |
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| Azz3D |
| quote: | Originally posted by JBDreamerie
that might be possible, but the thing is you can't just look at pure speed. you also have to look at FSB speed.
for example, some of intel's past chips have been 3.4 GHz or something, with a 533 MHz FSB speed.
AMD's chips however have been something like 2 GHz with a 1033 MHz FSB speed.
there's a slight difference, but it makes a big change in the long run |
not really, it's the other way around
intel chips always had the bigger FSB but performed worse than AMD cause of the larger pipeline
AMD chips are in general more clock efficient than intel chip. That's why an 2.4Ghz AMD would be equal to a 2.8 intel or so
that all changed since the introduction of 'Pentium M' which was where intel stopped with their P4 'netburst' architecture and continued to improve the pentium 3 chip
conroe is is not a new architecture, but an enhancement of the P3 architecture
with the introduction of conroe you can say that for the first time (in a long time), intel chips are more efficient clock for clock than AMD |
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