Conroe: The truth?

[HKPolice]

http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/04...ng-busted.html

However, once you go over the 4MB limit, Conroe is slower than Athlon 64 at the same clock. Both the Cryptography and STREM tests use a lot more than 4MB, larger than Conroe's 4MB cache, and Conroe immediately falls below Athlon 64 on the performance curve.

Just as I predicted.. the measly 1066FSB becomes a huge bottleneck.
His point about cache thrashing makes sense as well.

Gamers probably won't notice much of a performance hit since most games are still single threaded, and unless you're running SLI or CF, the FSB doesn't become too much of a bottleneck. BUT... once multithreaded games come out + 2x 16x PCIe mobos and R600 CF or G80 SLI, the FSB will become a MAJOR bottleneck. Imagine the Quad Core Intel CPU coming out next year.... yikes.

When is Intel going to switch to an on die memory controller??