Conroe: The truth?

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Well, after everybody saw the brute force of Conroe CPU, people are trying to find it weaknesses. I agree that HT is better when it comes to four cores, but I still don't understand, why people are complaining for dualcores. HT doesn't bring a huge increase in bandwich against FSB, but lower latencies. Just think a little, bandwich isn't the real problem for todays procesors. With a dual channel controller, you have almost 3000MB read and over 1000MB write speed per core. 3000Mb means almost 400 milions 64bits longint variables or alomst 300 milions 10bytes reals. The CPU has also to execute jump and compare instructions, and 300mil floating point multiplication/division is too much event for the fastest which will be released this year. And remember, 80% or more bought AMD 64 for gaming. If scores will be the same in July, those people will buy Conroe, nomatter the better performance in ScienceMark.