Conroe 2.4Ghz on 965G mobo, brief test...

[incurable]

You guys should be able to get a Conroe sample from Intel if you ask. Just write a request and give your website link as well as other link to websites using your benchmark.

I believe Intel would rather not send free samples to AMD or any of its personnel.

[agenda2005]

I believe Intel would rather not send free samples to AMD or any of its personnel.

There might be some elements of 'truth' in that. I remember when the ScienceMark writers were alleged to have written the program to show the power of Athlon back in the days of AXP and Northwoord. They seems to have changed now, but that allegation might still hurt them.

http://sharikou.blogspot.com/

came across this blog stating about how a a64 could easily beat conroe...
is there any truth to it???

That looks like a speculation at the moment.

When Conroe is compiled with SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 optimizations, then we shall know the real truth.

The guy have no clue that the ScienceMark benchmark was running on plane Jane x87 which does no good to current days CPUs.

SPEC score will clear up those gray areas. There are more than 20 benchmark suit in SPEC and each of them uses > 100MB of memory.

[incurable]

There are some element of 'truth' in that. I remember when the ScienceMark writers were alleged to have written the program to show the power of Athlon back in the days of AXP and Northwoord. They seems to have changed now, but that allegation might still hurt them.

The truth is that Tim Wilkens, the guy who programmed the apps this benchmark is based on (for his PhD research, IIRC), scored a job w/ AMD after getting his degree.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Tim (I don't even know if he's still actively involved in the project.) or Alex or the others who are part of ScienceMark group are writing their software in a way to show one competitor scoring higher than the other. But instead of sending the ScienceMark guys pre-release hardware, Intel could just mail it to Hector himself.