Intel Core Duo T2600 VS. FX60...

[MrObvious]

You gotta remember 2 things:
An FX-60 or X2 or Opty was designed to be competing against the P-Ds, not the new Intel cores.
AM-2 is still due to come out in a very short while too. Don't count out AMD yet.
Meh!

Edit: Yet this battle looks interesting.

[WEAK]

Originally Posted by mehteenager

You gotta remember 2 things:
An FX-60 or X2 or Opty was designed to be competing against the P-Ds, not the new Intel cores.
AM-2 is still due to come out in a very short while too. Don't count out AMD yet.
Meh!

Edit: Yet this battle looks interesting.

Intel takes the crown back

http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2713&p=1

[Dynasty]

Originally Posted by WEAK

Intel takes the crown back

http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2713&p=1

looking good I might say, intel is making an
very strong comeback.
Win, win situation for us that bench

[WEAK]

Originally Posted by Dynasty

looking good I might say, intel is making an
very strong comeback.
Win, win situation for us that bench

Doesnt matter which chip is the best we always win

The performance will only get better by time. That conroe was on the 975x chipset.

And remember thats a Conroe 2.6Ghz vs a AMD @ 2.8Ghz hardly fair :P

[AkXb70]

whoa...i knew conroe would be a beast...but that is INSANE

[WEAK]

Originally Posted by AkXb70

whoa...i knew conroe would be a beast...but that is INSANE

That just brings tears to my eyes when someone says that

[Laughing Man]

Just looked at the links (friend sent me them) and wow. But I can't wait for the AM2s as well. Either way I'll be sad cause I can't get another system for another 3-4 years. In fact the only upgrades I even plan for now are 2 GBs of RAM and another 17 inch LCD.

But like I've said, in 4 years it'll be interesting to see who's on top. Hopefully whoever it is, I'll be able to get an affordable dual core processor then.

[ORL]

In four years dual CPUs will be the fashion and the quads will be the top models... its kind of funny to think about actually, you can now buy dual CPU rigs at your larger PC distribution centers, I cant wait for quad cores, 4 instances of F@H on it so I would be running 400% lol. These are looking really good, cant wait for the official release to happen.

[Laughing Man]

Guess I'll grab a Quad Core if I can afford it.

Probably will considering as time goes on technology prices drop. So maybe a Quad core then would be slightly more expensive then what a dual core is now?

[ORL]

I think the quad core will be competitively priced as our dual cores of today are, and the dual cores of then equall to the single cores of today. IMO of course and only the future will tell, the single core CPU will be a thing of the past, as games like oblivion are going to be multi threaded, Oblivion its self is hinted to be, although it will mostly be GPU powering it, the CPU does play the vital roles as well, I also think we will start seeing the CPU play a bigger part in graphics later on in the game as well, however for now the graphics a CPU alone can manage are pretty horid.

[Dil-tech]

Dothan/Yonah doesn't pick up much from "the cold", strapping it on phase didn't do much for dothan that couldn't already be done on air. Yonah doesn't look to be much different. Much like how A64's don't gain anything from switching to water from air. It only makes a big difference if temps are the limiting factor.

You have to go LN2/Cascade to see much of a difference, as these chips aren't limited by temperature, but rather by the chip itself(the architecture's scaling). With LN2/Cascades they jump though, but they can't be run 24/7.

If only yonah was a 64-bit processor...

[kyleslater]

It's also not fair because the FX-60 is still three issue not 4 issue like the conroe. and the chipset to have will probably be the 975X or the P965 (coming out at the same time as conroe).

[AkXb70]

Originally Posted by kyleslater

It's also not fair because the FX-60 is still three issue not 4 issue like the conroe. and the chipset to have will probably be the 975X or the P965 (coming out at the same time as conroe).

oh wow...this is nitpicking...does it really matter if the FX60 is a 3 issue core??? AM2 is going to use 3 issue wide processors. so? its like saying its not fair to compare prescott and northwood because prescott has more pipeline stages...

[Mike_Norwood]

Agreed. IF the AM2's stick with a 3-issue core, and 4-issue cores are an advantage, then it's fair.

I really hope AMD hustles to keep up. As an Intel fanboy, I want prices to keep low.

[ORL]

HAHA, I really think its funny how all you think this is the end of AMD, dont be ignorant now, they made it this long and have held on better than many give credit, and in quite a few stages whooped up pretty good. As I once stated, AMD is here to stay and neither companie is going to drown out the other, I love them both. AMD keeping up??? Hell its been intel doing the scrambling for some time. I wont complain because the fresh lead, which may be quite temporary for all we know, will help the consumers out on the prices, a lot.

It will be nice to see conroe take the lead for a bit, that just means AMD is going to put out something that much better, then Intel will do the same and so on, thats buisiness.

[Dil-tech]

Exactly ORL, AMD has had the lead for about 3 years, it's intel's time to shine... For how long remains a mystery though.

[ORL]

Agreed, I like the competition, it really helps us atain better products and better prices. If you think about it, the products of today will still be enough to manage what is coming up in the next few years as well, well not GPUs but the CPUs lol, these ones we have now are very powerfull, and look at how the older CPUs still shin in some apps. I cant wait to see whats next. This is really starting to get exciting

On a side note, my parents sub 400mhz sony vaio, was 3,450 dollars, look at what we could build today for that. Hell half my folding rigs are older than 3 years(maybe thats why I have such a low PPD, haha) But I am very interested in seeing this conroe fold