A CPU made of paper

Anybody actually seen a pic of a Conroe chip?
How about a working engineering sample of a motherboard?
Pics of the socket that the chip will plug into? Anyone?

Looks to me like it mainly exists on paper right now.

Latest news indicates Conroe (the desktop chip) is to have its big showing in September, with Merom (mobile chip) in October.
It's six or seven months away from seeing the light of day -- and that's just the review samples. I wouldn't count on buying an actual Conroe based system before December.

Yet people are talking about it like it's pending immediate release.
People, people, people. This is just more Intel BS. It's a distraction, like a matador waving a red flag in the bullring.
Intel spokesperson: "Please ignore the crap that we're making right now. We have this really cool super powerful CPU coming out really soon! We promise."

Here's another one of it mounted on a testing board. Speculation has it that the current X series chipsets will not handle the Conroe platform. I'd really like to know what chipset they are planning on using and what socket. According to this picture, it still looks like a 775 socket to me.


Conroe Testing Board

brainysmurf, please take you biased and unimformed comments elsewhere. instead of making useless anti-intel posts can you please do something more useful like getting a life and a brain.

Will that turn him into another one of those idiot conroe worshipers that he is on about?
Oh by the way folks, merom will not be out till next year.

Jesus, dude, where did you learn how to type?

I agree with you on that one and that's where the problem lies even with Conroe. Intel still insists on using this old two way traffic design. It has latency issues and to offset that, they increased the cache size. Who knows what will happen. We can only wait and see.

Shut up dude i'm a fucking AMD fanboy and i'm excited about Conroe

We have yet to see about that. I hope it's gona be something good. I'm tired of Brand-fanboys. Where are the performance fanboys?

See, i'm no brand-fanboy, either of fryed greasy chips or hard boiled eggs.

The facts speak for themselves: at the present conjuncture, AMD has the lead, both in performance-per-watt and in [growing] market share percentile, towards Intel.

Fact: Intel is bigger overall, has taken the very rational step towards the "computing paradigm of the earlier XXI century", i.e., performance-per-watt (better late than sorry) and has lots of ready-to-market technologies, right up its sleeve.

Another fact: AMD has JUST (2 years, approx.) made the jump into the performance-per-watt-per-dollar, compared to Intel; it remains to be seen if it can comply with it and for how long.

It's not just this conjunctural performance-per-watt or per-clock which will define server/desktop/portable computing in the next few years; it's - and will be - rather, the performance/features vs costs which will drive the market = Us! And here, David hasn't been able to [deadly] hit Goliath. Time will tell but, for the moment, Intel has the lead.


Cheers!

you know what sepuko is right ill stop being an amd fanboy if intel beats it in one very important test!

Most of those spoiled brats live in upper west side, your town U.S.A.
I could care less about performance, if it comes with an insane pricetag.
Maybe I'm cheap, but I just want the best I can afford.
Most of the time, that has made me an idiot AMD fanboy, but Intel has had it's minutes.

*** tightens the screws on the back of the newly completed system, Turns it on, and hides behind the 19LCD monitor playing his games untill three years from now, or when the system will not run the games anymore; whichever comes first!!!***

Man, you're hiding at the wrong side of your 19" LCD monitor! Just "hide" in front of it and, perhaps, you'll be able to play whatever, while the warranty still holds...


Cheers!