Question for the Conroe experts...

[derektm]

I've read a few things that one of the main reasons Conroe is good is because of its powerful ALUs and that this is why it does good in PI.

I've also read that Conroe, because its using the older FSB still and other factors, that it will "feel slow" when multitasking or just undery daily use than say an AMD processor.

Is this ture?

[iboomalot]

Conroe from some of the benches will not feel slow IMO

cinebench and encoding are faster which IMO means more than SuperPi.

also since the Conroe can OC better due to its mobile design I highly doubt a 3.5 ghz (air) conroe will feel slow.

[[XC]Atomicpineapple]

I've also read that Conroe, because its using the older FSB still and other factors, that it will "feel slow" when multitasking or just undery daily use than say an AMD processor.

Well I've used an X2 3800+ @ 2.75Ghz and now an 805@4GHz (which is presumably using the 'older FSB' tech & is a temporary chip while waiting for Conroe) and at desktop I cant tell the difference, bench scores are probably different but I cant say due to lack of a GFX card (on RMA) and I'm in the middle of exams now so I dont have the time to test it. All that makes me conclude, along with the Conroe benchmarks that people have posted, that it wont feel slow at all!

[kl0012]

I've read a few things that one of the main reasons Conroe is good is because of its powerful ALUs and that this is why it does good in PI.
Conroe have faster FPU on SSE/SSE2 code (PI uses SSE2) and equal to K8 on x87 code.


I've also read that Conroe, because its using the older FSB still and other factors, that it will "feel slow" when multitasking or just undery daily use than say an AMD processor.
Is this ture?

Actualy Conroe do not need faster FSB (or even IMC) because of the good prefetchers and predictors. Read it:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2748

[Fred_Pohl]

I've read a few things that one of the main reasons Conroe is good is because of its powerful ALUs and that this is why it does good in PI.

I've also read that Conroe, because its using the older FSB still and other factors, that it will "feel slow" when multitasking or just undery daily use than say an AMD processor.

Is this ture?

Short answer... NO!

What you've heard is nothing but AMD fanboy FUD. If Core 2 Duo has an achilles heel it is in the 4S+ server space where it's GTL+ FSB might become a limitation. On the desktop, Conroe's FSB is more than adequate.

[derektm]

Thanks for all your replies! Much appreciated :toast:

I think I'm going to go the route lot of other people are going. Buy a 805 as a filler with a Conroe board and wait a month.


Short answer... NO!

What you've heard is nothing but AMD fanboy FUD. If Core 2 Duo has an achilles heel it is in the 4S+ server space where it's GTL+ FSB might become a limitation. On the desktop, Conroe's FSB is more than adequate.

I actualy read a lot of what I heard in the AMD section :slap:

Anyone else have any input to what I posted?