I hear everyone on the forums saying how unfair it was comparing conroe and AMD, and how AM2 benchmarks were "not final" and benchmark being rigged and what not, its amd fanboyism if you ask me! hear the other side of the story:
THE ONLY UNFAIR BENCHMARK WAS COMPARING A 2.66GHZ CONROE TO A HIGHER CLOCKED A64 X2 AT 2.8GHZ
Its unfair AMD has an Integrated Memory Controller
Its unfair AMD uses a better + faster "fsb" (HTT) taking on intels fsb thats twice as old.
The AM2 benchmarks shown here at THG were using DDR2-667 - so what, conroe was using DDR2-667, both when there out will use DDR2-800 so the advantage will be equal
Intel systems cheating benchmarks? Even if the amd system was (it wasnt) 5% slower or whatever conroe is still atleast 20% quicker and not even clock for clock.
Its unfair AMD's "extreme edition" equivilant the FX60 (overclocked) was taking on a stock conroe (FSB1066, not the EE at 1333mhz fsb)
All you amd fanboys, ah what the hell MadModMike - people buy what best suits them at the times, and now it seems Intel provides us with colder, cheaper and faster processors - there simply faster, and when/if (come on you say that about Intel so ill say it to amd) so IF AMD comes out with something better then yes we will buy the faster chip - its not the brands, its the performance.
And besides - were all Intel AND AMD fanboys - no one buys Transmetta and VIA products LOL
THE ONLY UNFAIR BENCHMARK WAS COMPARING A 2.66GHZ CONROE TO A HIGHER CLOCKED A64 X2 AT 2.8GHZ
Its unfair AMD has an Integrated Memory Controller
Its unfair AMD uses a better + faster "fsb" (HTT) taking on intels fsb thats twice as old.
The AM2 benchmarks shown here at THG were using DDR2-667 - so what, conroe was using DDR2-667, both when there out will use DDR2-800 so the advantage will be equal
Intel systems cheating benchmarks? Even if the amd system was (it wasnt) 5% slower or whatever conroe is still atleast 20% quicker and not even clock for clock.
Its unfair AMD's "extreme edition" equivilant the FX60 (overclocked) was taking on a stock conroe (FSB1066, not the EE at 1333mhz fsb)
All you amd fanboys, ah what the hell MadModMike - people buy what best suits them at the times, and now it seems Intel provides us with colder, cheaper and faster processors - there simply faster, and when/if (come on you say that about Intel so ill say it to amd) so IF AMD comes out with something better then yes we will buy the faster chip - its not the brands, its the performance.
And besides - were all Intel AND AMD fanboys - no one buys Transmetta and VIA products LOL