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Will [H] review Conroe?

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Just curious, didn't really see too much reviewage of Yonah. And we all know how terrible it turned out.
 
brucedeluxe169 said:
how was yonah terrible?

It wasn't, it was just never meant to be a standalone desktop chip for an everyday person like you or me.
 
lithium726 said:
of course they will. Yonah was a mobile chip, not an enthusiast's desktop chip


Yet it didn't fare too bad when overclocked (or stock, for that matter) against other desktop chips...you could say it "owned" most chips when 'clocked. I guess [H] excludes mobile chips?
 
JetUsafMech said:
Yet it didn't fare too bad when overclocked (or stock, for that matter) against other desktop chips...you could say it "owned" most chips when 'clocked. I guess [H] excludes mobile chips?
There is a large lack of mainboards and support from intel on the matter. just because it can be done does not mean it is feasable to do so, or many of us would have by now, as it is a spectacular peice of silicon.
 
lithium726 said:
There is a large lack of mainboards and support from intel on the matter. just because it can be done does not mean it is feasable to do so, or many of us would have by now, as it is a spectacular peice of silicon.

I agree with you. But there are more available Yonah desktop boards available now than Conroe (yes, I know it hasn't been released). With Intel AND AMD pushing mobile on desktop for HTPC's (low power, cooler running, powerful, etc.), I would've thought a review would be done by now, 'specially on the 'enthusiast' tab.

I am curious, however, what the [H] can show us about Conroe that Anandtech, The Tech Report, XtremeSystems, HotHardware, Aceshardware, Hexus, Legitreviews, Tomshardware, Hothardware, etc. haven't already shown.
 
JetUsafMech said:
Yet it didn't fare too bad when overclocked (or stock, for that matter) against other desktop chips...you could say it "owned" most chips when 'clocked. I guess [H] excludes mobile chips?

I heard rumors that getting desktop boards for Yonah was difficult at first. If those rumors are true, maybe the [H] did not review it for the lack of retail availability. Remember that they did this with ATi's gfx cards once.
 
JetUsafMech said:
I agree with you. But there are more available Yonah desktop boards available now than Conroe (yes, I know it hasn't been released). With Intel AND AMD pushing mobile on desktop for HTPC's (low power, cooler running, powerful, etc.), I would've thought a review would be done by now, 'specially on the 'enthusiast' tab.

I am curious, however, what the [H] can show us about Conroe that Anandtech, The Tech Report, XtremeSystems, HotHardware, Aceshardware, Hexus, etc. haven't already shown.

30' monitor side by side, to see difference between FX and Conroe, need I say more?
 
drizzt81 said:
I heard rumors that getting desktop boards for Yonah was difficult at first. If those rumors are true, maybe the [H] did not review it for the lack of retail availability. Remember that they did this with ATi's gfx cards once.

Now I didn't think about that. And yes, I remember the ATI gig. Good point.
 
jebo_4jc said:
Does a bear *poo* in the woods?


..well ..that depends.

-is the bear alive?
-is the bear in the woods or in a zoo or at the north/south pole?


 
Ok fine...how bout, is an anatomically correct frog's *behind* water tight?
 
Had Bruno been wearing a Conroe powered tracking device and wandering inhibitor ...he would still be alive today

:(


[F]old|[H]ard
 
Oh4Sh0 said:
or dead from the heat
*snif*
I smell an AMD fanboy. Maybe somebody should tell him we're talking about Conroe not Prescott.
 
Will they review the Core 2 Duo CPU?
Dose a Canadian more more for everything compared to Americans?
 
ThreeDee said:
Had Bruno been wearing a Conroe powered tracking device and wandering inhibitor ...he would still be alive today

:(


[F]old|[H]ard

Yea but sure it were an AthlonXP powered device it would have died, went up in flames and burned him alive LOL!
 
JetUsafMech said:
I agree with you. But there are more available Yonah desktop boards available now than Conroe (yes, I know it hasn't been released). With Intel AND AMD pushing mobile on desktop for HTPC's (low power, cooler running, powerful, etc.), I would've thought a review would be done by now, 'specially on the 'enthusiast' tab.

I am curious, however, what the [H] can show us about Conroe that Anandtech, The Tech Report, XtremeSystems, HotHardware, Aceshardware, Hexus, Legitreviews, Tomshardware, Hothardware, etc. haven't already shown.

I agree, it doesn't put them in the best spot but hey, no ones perfect ;)

In some cases it seemed there was a ban on most Yonah Info and that line about Desktop boards is Bogus as well. There weren't a lot of AM2 boards when it launched, that didn't stop anything.
 
Hey, [H] waited a while to review the 7950GX2, but when they did it was a kickass review. When they do finally review Conroe, I'm sure it won't be a half-assed review like we sometimes see from lesser sites. ;)
 
Majin said:
Dose a Canadian more more for everything compared to Americans?
If that sentence made sense (is it even a sentence?) I'd respond, but that does not even look like english.
 
scout007 said:
30' monitor side by side, to see difference between FX and Conroe, need I say more?


That's going to be all video card isn't it?
 
Eradan said:
That's going to be all video card isn't it?

some of the benchmarks has shown that Conroe actually brings more FPS, what I want to know is that is there a noticeable difference between AMD/Intel in gameplay using real world games.
 
Yes, we are going to cover it, still trying to figure out the exact attack and what we need to show you guys.
 
I'm going to list my dream Conroe review, but you guys are probably going to do all this anyway so whatever :)

  • No single-cores in the review, apples-to-apples dual-core only
  • Compare to AM2, not s939, so as to get an exact comparison (both using DDR2)
  • Conroe versus X2, 9xx, 8xx on power consumption
  • Conroe versus said processors in your normal plethora of benchmarks
  • Overclocking for the 4MB and 2MB parts (some people are saying the 2MB ones overclock poorly)
  • Ditch the old platforms (s748, s462), all they do is clutter the benchmark charts
  • A chart showing how speed scales to MHz for the 4MB and 2MB parts
  • Lots of gaming benchmarks, uber-low-detail and real-world benchmarks
  • Video encoding, lots of video encoding. Xvid, DivX, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV
 
InorganicMatter said:
I'm going to list my dream Conroe review, but you guys are probably going to do all this anyway so whatever :)

  • No single-cores in the review, apples-to-apples dual-core only
  • Compare to AM2, not s939, so as to get an exact comparison (both using DDR2)
  • Conroe versus X2, 9xx, 8xx on power consumption
  • Conroe versus said processors in your normal plethora of benchmarks
  • Overclocking for the 4MB and 2MB parts (some people are saying the 2MB ones overclock poorly)
  • Ditch the old platforms (s748, s462), all they do is clutter the benchmark charts
  • A chart showing how speed scales to MHz for the 4MB and 2MB parts
  • Lots of gaming benchmarks, uber-low-detail and real-world benchmarks
  • Video encoding, lots of video encoding. Xvid, DivX, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV

Perfect.

But I REALLY want to know about this;

  • A chart showing how speed scales to MHz for the 4MB and 2MB parts

The X6800 doesn't have as large of a performance-per-clock advantage (only 1.2) over the Athlon 64s as the lower-clocked processors do (usually 1.3). Or atleast it appears that way.

Then again, I've seen a E6600 overclocked to 3.0Ghz (Guru3D Forums) kicking a Opteron 165 3.0Ghz's ass with a 1.6 performance-per-clock ratio.
 
InorganicMatter said:
I'm going to list my dream Conroe review, but you guys are probably going to do all this anyway so whatever :)
  • No single-cores in the review, apples-to-apples dual-core only
  • Compare to AM2, not s939, so as to get an exact comparison (both using DDR2)
  • Conroe versus X2, 9xx, 8xx on power consumption
  • Conroe versus said processors in your normal plethora of benchmarks
  • Overclocking for the 4MB and 2MB parts (some people are saying the 2MB ones overclock poorly)
  • Ditch the old platforms (s748, s462), all they do is clutter the benchmark charts
  • A chart showing how speed scales to MHz for the 4MB and 2MB parts
  • Lots of gaming benchmarks, uber-low-detail and real-world benchmarks
  • Video encoding, lots of video encoding. Xvid, DivX, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV
Nailed it
 
InorganicMatter said:
I'm going to list my dream Conroe review, but you guys are probably going to do all this anyway so whatever :)

  • No single-cores in the review, apples-to-apples dual-core only
  • Compare to AM2, not s939, so as to get an exact comparison (both using DDR2)
  • Conroe versus X2, 9xx, 8xx on power consumption
  • Conroe versus said processors in your normal plethora of benchmarks
  • Overclocking for the 4MB and 2MB parts (some people are saying the 2MB ones overclock poorly)
  • Ditch the old platforms (s748, s462), all they do is clutter the benchmark charts
  • A chart showing how speed scales to MHz for the 4MB and 2MB parts
  • Lots of gaming benchmarks, uber-low-detail and real-world benchmarks
  • Video encoding, lots of video encoding. Xvid, DivX, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV

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