Which Conroe Will You Be Buying?

[tikiman44]

I'm so excited for Conroe!! Finally to have an Intel processor in my system that will stop bottlenecking my video cards (to a point) ! Needless to say I will be upgrading on launch day. You can already preorder Conroe and you can find more about that in this thread.

Basically what I'm wondering is which Conroe will you be buying or will you hold on to your 939, or maybe wait for quad core?

Use the poll.

 

[S_G]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1059454

 

[jcll2002]

waiting for quad core. I just got my opty rig and its plenty powerful for me

 

[tikiman44]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1059454

Whoops

 

[tikiman44]

jAkUp over at NV NEWS did an interview with the famed Tim Sweeney of Unreal Tournament and this is what he said about Conroe:

Jacob- One more question, kinda in the same fashion, Conroe or AM2?

Sweeney- Haha, well that’s hard to say, I don’t know much about AM2, but Conroe is a really fantastic chip. The funny thing is very few people in the industry have been willing to come out and say that the Pentium 4 architecture sucks. It sucked all along. Even at the height of it’s sucking, when it was running at 3.6GHz and not performing as well as a 2GHz AMD64… People were reluctant to say it sucked… so IT SUCKS! But Conroe really makes up for that and I am really happy to see that, that Intel is back on this track of extremely high computing performance at reasonable clock rates. Not having to scale up to these extremely hot running systems that require a lot of cooling. I think they are on a good track there and if they scale the Conroe architecture up to four and eight cores in the future, then that will put the industry on a really good track for improving performance dramatically at a faster rate than we have seen in the past.

 

[drizzt81]

I want the 4MB ca$he version

 

[Winchester1897]

I am sticking with my 939 cpu.

 

[lithium726]

Im sticking with my 478, so your poll isnt applicable..

 

[texuspete00]

E6600

Took out the lidless Opty 170 to try and flog it now. 3700+ Sandy is a strong overclocker for my gaming rig for now. Good plan I think. Had my rig open, and I just thought... wait a sec, why not sell this now.

 

[ilkhan]

Im actually downgrading the desktop (strictly speaking, swapping from an X2 2.0Ghz/512 to a single core 2Ghz/512) and swapping to a primary laptop, core duo and then swapping in a merom when they are released. The X2 is gone for $240 by the way, if I felt like it I could buy a new one in a month with the profit *after* buying the 3200+.

Planning on building a SFF gaming/main use machine around march, by then if Im lucky kentsfield will be out and Ill grab one of those.

 

[bassman]

Where's the "I'm gonna wait for the benchmarks and price drops to make my decision" choice?

 

[Atanum141]

E6300 for me please, yeah so what if its the slowest...ill OC it like a madman.

 

[Asian Dub Foundation]

E6600

 

[troisanh]

E6600 for me!

 

[Firebat]

2.4ghz sounds like the sweet spot for me.

 

[BR3T]

Waiting for quad core. There is just something about 4-way symetric processing on a single chip that is really exciting.

 

[Sir Random]

E6600 for me too.

Possibly the most eagerly anticipated chip of all time...

 

[lowrider007]

I've just pre-orderd the Extreme Edition X6800 from OcUK (warm fuzzy feeling ensues), £784 .......................ahhhhh what the heck

 

[GoldenTiger]

I've just pre-orderd the Extreme Edition X6800 from OcUK (warm fuzzy feeling ensues), £784 .......................ahhhhh what the heck

Grats! You are now a pro spender , and have gained a 10" e-"youknowwhat" extension!

Seriously, enjoy the chip... it ought to be a psychotic beast on that drug that eliminates pain sensations!