Conroe: The truth?

[Thorry]

Jup, as I said, this guy is known to shout out bulls hit....

[ahmad]

But honestly, come on. I seen the numbers.. conroe isn't THAT much faster than an FX-60 for example. I mean compare xeons to opterons, thats a big difference. Compare A64 to Conroe or AM2, they all look to be pretty much the same.

Besides if there were any real hardcore gamers, they would use high quality settings. And that means pretty much little to no CPU bottleneck just because the video card can barely keep up.

[sergiu]

You're right, but think about marketing. In my country, if you ask most people (with a few knowledge in IT) about a gaming sistem, they will tell you to choose AMD, although a gamer with a fast video card will always play at high quality settings, where there is no difference between an Intel and an AMD cpu (both "averange" cpus). When CPU does matter, it's useless, because human eye doesn't tell the difference between 200FPS and 300FPS. With Conroe, the situation will be the same, all will tell you to choose Conroe, although there will be no diference (unless you will use CPU power to "emulate" Ageia's phisics engine in future games ).

[Daveb2012]

But honestly, come on. I seen the numbers.. conroe isn't THAT much faster than an FX-60 for example.

well it cost about 75% less.