What You Should Know About INTEL CORE 2 DUO (Conroe)

[Jerry Jones]

Good article by PC MAGAZINE:

http://tinyurl.com/lyh3v

[Jerry Jones]

Rumor has it the new APPLE G5's (Mac Pros) will sport Conroe (Intel Core 2 Duo) chips:

http://tinyurl.com/l4zbj

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[GuchiGuh]

Hey wow...coming out of the Lounge, I've never seen you before?!
G'day mate!

[Jerry Jones]

Right now, it looks like the Athlon 64 FX-62 machines are the fastest:

http://tinyurl.com/me67o

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[Jerry Jones]

More on the AMD chips from The Inquirer:

http://tinyurl.com/pqc9y

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[wkulecz]

Absolute "winner" of the benchmarks is rarely cost effective. Benchmark score per dollar is the figure of merit to get the most bang for the buck.

Until these things actually are for sale and we see what the real world prices are, its a good time to hold off on any updates or new system purchases.

OTOH, if you've got PCI boards you need to keep using, your motherboard choices get slimmer every week. Here at work we're stocking up on "old" Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 motherboards as its oen of the few around with 5 PCI slots.

--wally.

[ZokesPro]

http://forums.murc.ws/showpost.php?p=591075&postcount=5

[Jerry Jones]

AnandTech's Conroe benchmarks:

http://tinyurl.com/p7bo5

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[Jerry Jones]

I suspect these faster processors are going to be needed for H.264 editing:

According to the following article...

http://tinyurl.com/mzsxl

...H.264 video "is at least four times as computationally intensive" as the MPEG-2 compression standard.



Wow.

Jerry Jones

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