http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/c [...] otout.html

Interesting. Helps to put things in context e.g.





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Nice link

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Holy sh!t batman! Check out the power consumption numbers!

It really put's things into perspective. Good review.

Good article.

Before reading this and other things and now prices have finally come down here on 939 Dual cores, I was thinking of doing a 'quick' upgrade on my current machine (more for a bit extra than because its struggling).

Now I think I'll just wait and consider the investment in a new Conroe/platform when a wider variety of motherboards are released and things bed down a bit. The E6400 and E6600 look great bang for buck chips.

Unfortunately, Intel was about 1 year late for the duel.

Nice spin there BaronBS. AMD can't compete with this until K8L which is coming in 2008.

Quad core FX may pop up before you know it. Right around the time1333-1600MHz DDR2 will hit. Maybe SLI RAM is designed for quad. I haven't heard about nVidia putting this on Nforce5 Intel - not saying they wouldn't purposely or anything.

Quad FX will only help in certain apps and it'll be quite expensive.

No official support.

No official support.


I say FX but K8 was always meant to be quad. That would really start to saturate the DDR2 bus. Without K8L. I hope to see signs of it soon. 8x8 won't be K8L and the news from AMD says Q1 or so(ABC news).


SLI RAM is being standardized by JEDEC. Corsair is already running at 1200(Corsair). OCz probably is also. Haven't been to their site but both are SLI RAM partners with nVidia.

Intel must be seriously underrating their processor's TDPs if the X6800 is getting 66W. 8O

Unlikely, an X2 isn't even bottlenecked on DDR400.

Exactly.

Pffft, everyone knows that Intels TDP figures are only 75% of the real power draw.

Its impressive though, they can keep the 65w TDP and at least hit 3.0ghz. Woodcrest is speced for 80w, so its got a lot of headroom.

It certainly does.

One word: Yummy.
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Good infor. Like the E6600.

Those numbers are sexy for CPU . Harder, better, faster, stonger.....[/Daft Punk] 8O

wow..

When you look at the price/performance graph the top 3 core2's are literally alone - in a good way

The E6600 is clearly the best value for the money.

The FX62 and the old PentiumD 965 are all alone also, in a very bad way

Yes, I agree. The E6600 is my price range.

Which CPU are you buying Baron? Probably the E6800 right?

Rough sketch of what I think are the processors to buy in this bunch.

is my way of looking at it. Red is the top field, only E6600 and E6400 in there. Then the pink with lots of CPUs. Then a final hard-to-see field which includes all but the "extreme" CPUs. Always were a waste of money.
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