Core 2 (Conroe) vs Athlon FX-62 Benchmarks

[TRDCorolla1]

Having two CPU sockets using DDR2 DRAM linked with HyperTransport, which enables you to drop in one or two dual core Athlon64 FX CPUs to make a quad core system reminds me of a the old multi CPU systems used in servers except this time, it has dual core support for each socket. AMD thinks that by pairing a quad core setup with a quad GPU SLI graphics setup will smoke all.

 

[Kage]

Ah, well, okay, but lets put this another way.

Like an AMD, for example my 3500+. It is capable of running as fast as a Pentium 4 3.5GHZ, yet it only runs at 2.2GHZ.

Is it the same case for the Conroe core?

 

[ownage]

well kage really it's not a pentium. it's just a core 2 duo *shrugs* i think the pentuim line is comming 2 an end basically.

i don't really get what u mean by faster than stated. but it does take 128-bit executions as a whole in comparison to AMDs and netburst's 64-bit execution. so instead of breaking a 128-bit into two 64-bits it just takes it as a whole, saving time , or a whole clock cycle(hope clock cycle is the right term) i beleve....

Thats partial to why Core 2 Duo performs so well. They can also group similar instructions and execute both in 1 clock cycle. They can also execute 3 simple and 1 complex instruction compared to AMDs 2 simple and 1 complex.

 

[Kage]

Kewl

Well, my next builds going to be a Core 2 Duo definietly. I have the money for it, but I'm going to wait until I've got about double what I need for the entire PC build.

 

[MooseMan1]

cool! core 2 duo will definatly be awesome. i am exicted to see how stable and all it is.

 

[PerfectSK]

Nice, good luck with your build.

 

[Kage]

Thanks

I'm not going to go for the fastest Core 2 Duo, but I think if I get the 6700 or something, I can overclock it to Extreme speeds...

It won't be for a while yet though.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Sweet build

Having two CPU sockets using DDR2 DRAM linked with HyperTransport, which enables you to drop in one or two dual core Athlon64 FX CPUs to make a quad core system reminds me of a the old multi CPU systems used in servers except this time, it has dual core support for each socket. AMD thinks that by pairing a quad core setup with a quad GPU SLI graphics setup will smoke all.

Four Graphics Cards?! Who the hell needs four Graphics Cards?!

You'd need a wall in your house free for the 3m plasma screen you'd need to see what that many new graphics cards could show And that wouldn't be good... cause then if you were playing late a game like... something scary, then it'd be crazy!

 

[alvino]

Haha, yeah. Quad SLI is such a gimmick. If you really want to use Quad SLI effectively, you'll need either a multiple monitor setup or a 24"+ LCD display.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

They stuff four Graphics Cards into those new G5 Apples don't they? for the 30" screen?