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Conroe the next INTEL classic cpu?

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AiMnDtel

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INTEL has made some great CPU’s over the years.

80XX
386 DX-16
486 DX/2-66
Pentium 100 & 166
Celeron 300A
Pentium 2-266
Pentium 3 550 Coppermine
Pentium 3 1.13 Ghz. Tualatin (512Kb. Cache)
Pentium 4 Northwood
Conroe ?

Can Conroe be added to the list?
 
Id leave the northwood off that list, netburst crap isnt comparable to the others
 
Northwood was an excellent processor, especially if you take into mind overclocking.


Yes, you can add conroe to the list
 
MrGuvernment said:
Northwood was an excellent processor, especially if you take into mind overclocking.


Yes, you can add conroe to the list
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Yeah, my trusty old 2.53ghz P4 Northwood was a fantastic overclocker. 3ghz without breaking sweat.
 
I thought it was out?
As for the original question.
Will it be eventually be considered a classic?
Yes or No?
 
Yeah Northwood should definitely be on that list...it kicked the crap out of the Athlon XP at the time.
 
live2sk8 said:
Yeah Northwood should definitely be on that list...it kicked the crap out of the Athlon XP at the time.
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I still remember my 1.60A doing 2.40Ghz at default voltages (50% overclock at default volts).

My 2.53B used to do 3.2GHz-3.30GHz at one notch above default.

The highest clock I got with a 2.8C was 3.7Ghz at slightly above default.

All on the Abit IC7-G motherboard (great mobo at the time for the 875 chipset)
 
Yeah I had a 2.4B on an Albatron 845PE board...the 1.6A and 1.8A were definitely OC beasts (the 1.8 was basically an underclocked 2.4B). Anyone who discredits Northwood wasn't around during its reign.
 
live2sk8 said:
Yeah I had a 2.4B on an Albatron 845PE board...the 1.6A and 1.8A were definitely OC beasts (the 1.8 was basically an underclocked 2.4B). Anyone who discredits Northwood wasn't around during its reign.
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Agreed. This beast went from 100FSB to 133 FSB without breaking a sweat. Still running to this day.
 
I'd say so, yes.

So from that list, I've owned:

486 DX2/66
Celeron 300A
P4 Northwood

Soon to be Conroe owner. :)
 
live2sk8 said:
Yeah Northwood should definitely be on that list...it kicked the crap out of the Athlon XP at the time.
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actually they were really really close until the C series, where intel did kick the crap out of amd :p
 
sabrewolf732 said:
actually they were really really close until the C series, where intel did kick the crap out of amd :p
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I think it was more like:
Northwood A (400FSB): Intel drew level
Northwood B (533FSB): Intel got ahead
Northwood C (800FSB, HT): Intel pwned AMD :p
 
Dad has a 1.6A he's been running at 2.4GHz on stock intel cooler for years now.

I have a 2.4B and it's running great at 3.0GHz.

Roomate I had buy a 2.8C and it's been running solid at 3.4 or 3.6GHz. These were sweet sweet CPU cores.
 
I have a, 100 mhz pentium, 450mhz pentium2, 800 mhz pentium 3 I think, 2.8e and a 3.0c
 
Hey I still use a 3.0 Northwood and I love it. Northwood was as "right" as a P4 could have been.
 
USMC2Hard4U said:
Intels best CPU for the time was deffinatly the P3 Coppermine.

<3 the P3 :)
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No way... Tualatin was way better. 37C using stock HSF oc'd to ~1.6GHz.
 
Yeah, I'd definetely say Core 2 will go on that list.

I would also venture to say that Dothan deserves a spot on that list as well. Dothan was a revolutionary new laptop CPU that provided unprecedented performance and battery life.
 
northwood are good cpu, but XP's were cheaper so AMD was the choice of many. Conroe is the first CPU to put a hurtin on AMD since 1999 when slot A was released and beat all P3. From 99 to present AMD was the gamers choice. Looks like it may be 50/50 and all come down to loyalty for whichever brand one likes.
 
^I'd say you're a bit biased^

Northwood whooped the pants off XPs, the only reason people bought XPs were because they were almost half the price of a Northwood. The only "gamers" that bough XPs were the ones on really low budgets.
 
um no, as one can prove northwood was only significantly faster in games during the C series.
 
sabrewolf732 said:
um no, as one can prove northwood was only significantly faster in games during the C series.
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I say yes add Conroe to the Classic Intel Processor list, with Tualatin as well even if it was late.

They were app dependent more than anything. If the app had good SIMD and Multithreading support, Northwood C rocked. Good SIMD supported made the A & B slightly faster AMD PR number counter parts.

My Ninja came Friday:)
 
InorganicMatter said:
The only "gamers" that bough XPs were the ones on really low budgets.
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duh, and who makes up 90 % of gamers ? kids on really low budgets. The other side of the coin is the fact that back in 2003 you could get by just fine with a XP1700 and 512 MB ram. There was no compeling reason the buy a much more expensive shiney new CPU. That was the beauty of the XP. It worked great for not a whole lot of money.
 
I believe those days were good mostly cuz of the UNLOCKED multiplier :). Yeah, it was $50, but unlocked was the real kicker above all. At the very least AMD still let's you drop the multiplier...but with RAM dividers, there's no reason to do that really either.

Doh.
 
Intel have produced some belting processors over the years.

Originally I started off with a SX 25 processor. I remember the first day I had it. I loaded up Day of the Tentacle - I was blown away. Soon after I upgraded to a mighty DX66, the leap in performance seemed incredible at the time. Next up was a P3 450 followed by a P4 2.53 ghz Northwood. I would consider all to be classic Intel chips. Only 2 months ago did I change to AMD, a great gaming PC but Windows performance is no better than my old P4.
 
sabrewolf732 said:
um no, as one can prove northwood was only significantly faster in games during the C series.
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Not *entirely* true if we take overclocking into account, who rememers the P4 1.6A? It was cheap and o/ced to 2.4GHz without breaking a sweat, at a time when the fastest XP chip was a 2200+ I think.

Now if memory serves me right back then we also had Tbred 1700+s that would clock pretty high as well, I *think* they were slightly cheaper than 1.6As also.
 
harpoon said:
Not *entirely* true if we take overclocking into account, who rememers the P4 1.6A? It was cheap and o/ced to 2.4GHz without breaking a sweat, at a time when the fastest XP chip was a 2200+ I think.

Now if memory serves me right back then we also had Tbred 1700+s that would clock pretty high as well, I *think* they were slightly cheaper than 1.6As also.
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yes, athlon xp's also overclocked...
 
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