FINALLY!!

[Yazule]

personal opnion here, but overclocking is so 1995... why risk your expensive hardware when you are NOT going to SEE any difference...

[MED1C]

Here is the official release date for Intel's "Conroe" I think it's July 27th.
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart ... chid=11100

http://news.com.com/Date+set+for+phase+ ... g=nefd.top

[midnightservice]

Well for performance i would still go with intel Dual Core system. But syth right now you could plug in an old 1.4 ghz system and get better results than you lappy. so you will be happy with what ever you choose.

-Mid

[MED1C]

Isn't AMD's dual core much better than Intel's for the time being?

[Archangelus]

Isn't AMD's dual core much better than Intel's for the time being?

Isn't that like saying, "Isn't the top of the line VCR better now, than waiting for that DVD Player to come out at the end of the month?" <- Just messin with ya!

Here's a link to HardOCP's writeup on the new Conroe's. Basically, the E6700 is just as good as the Extreme X6800. Both are noticably better than the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62, but their benchmarks (vs. everyone else's) show that the difference isn't monumental. Who you believe? I don't know.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.h ... VzaWFzdA==

There's an article on the frontpage of Shacknews.com that links to a bunch of reviews/benchmarks of the new Conroe chips as well.

-Arch

[BadAsh]

Yeah I just read an article on the new intel Processors. Finally Intel got off their ass and back in the game. Competition means lower prices for us

[MED1C]

Isn't AMD's dual core much better than Intel's for the time being?

Isn't that like saying, "Isn't the top of the line VCR better now, than waiting for that DVD Player to come out at the end of the month?" <- Just messin with ya!

Here's a link to HardOCP's writeup on the new Conroe's. Basically, the E6700 is just as good as the Extreme X6800. Both are noticably better than the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62, but their benchmarks (vs. everyone else's) show that the difference isn't monumental. Who you believe? I don't know.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.h ... VzaWFzdA==

There's an article on the frontpage of Shacknews.com that links to a bunch of reviews/benchmarks of the new Conroe chips as well.

-Arch

Well yes, I would get the top of the line VCR because no one knew that DVD was going to be the next big thing in home movies. And DVD players when they came out were super expenisive and not all that great. And there weren't many DVD's out either. But I guess a processor is different story.

[XoR]

Just my humble 2 cents I've owned the 4800+ X2 for a while now and it's very solid. I do alot of rendering in 3ds max nowadays so my choice was obvious. In fact, this fall I will be building a parallel rendering rack with 4 blades and Dual Opteron dual cores. That's 16 cores 100% dedicated to rendering. *geek alert*

Gaming wise the story isn't so clear to me. I've used pretty much everything at some point give or take, and I just don't see a huge difference once you get to a certain point. Before the system I have now, I had a A64 3500+ and sure, the 4800's snappier and all that but what really makes the big differences (to me) are the graphics cards.

And just for XoR's pick, I would recommend the 7900GT. Or the 7950 if money is not an issue. Or any of the QuadroFX line if you do any 3d Dev work, but I know this is for games! I have 2 7800GT SLI, and it pulverizes all games getting an ironclad 60fps (locked from monitor) without dipping. I had 1 7800GT and GTX before that, a 6800GT before that, um, a 5950 before that OMG !1!!! 4600 before that, GeForce3, agh! GeForce2 GTS, GeForceDDR, 2xVoodoo2 12MB! Rendition, she can't take much more captn! we've lost 3D!! s3Trio64+ !! she's gonna blow!! VGA VESA, Denise (Amiga), MOS VICII(c64), DEC wax paper, chalkboard, coloring books ... darknesss