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Intel's Core 2 (Conroe) CPU's reviewed by Deabionni

Started on	: 07-14-2006 03:04 PM
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Report this Post07-14-2006 03:04 PM

AnandTech got their hands on a few of Intel's new Core 2 CPU's, and has a full review for them.

Read it here.

If you read through that review, you'll see that the $316 Core 2's performance is on par with AMD's newest FX-62 (which costs more that $1000).

The new Core 2 CPU's pack a pretty good punch, and shows that Intel just may be back into the performance ring with AMD.

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Report this Post07-14-2006 03:27 PM

Interesting!

"Core 2 Extreme is not truly "unlocked". Officially (per the BIOS Writers Guide), it is "a frequency limited processor with additional support for ratio overrides higher than the maximum Intel-tested bus-to-core ratio." Currently, that max tested ratio is 11:1 (aka 2.93G @ 1066 FSB). The min ratio is 6:1. However, do note that the Core 2 Extreme will boot at 2.93G unlike prior generation XE processors which booted to the lowest possible ratio and had to be "cranked up" to the performance ratio."

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