Conroe @ 2.9Ghz

[Durzel]

Well, AMD isn't coming up with a new arch for a good time yet, so that is fully 'compareisable'. And fastest proc from AMD this year will be, what, a AMD FX62 - Dual Core 2,8Ghz?

So, it's a reasonable comparison

Exactly.

You could compare it against an AM2 if AM2 wasn't just S939 with DDR2

[Durzel]

Do you got anything else we can compare with

A fanboy on another forum I frequent basically said "Conroe isn't all that, one of those Tyan servers with 100 million CPUs eats it alive at SuperPI".

Errr yeah, ok. When people resort to that sort of logic in arguments you know Conroe is the killer CPU.

[Xassius]

SuperPI isn't SMP is it?

(btw, Fugger, check your PMs)

[Charles Wirth]

Updated first post with cpuid and pi.

[death metal]

wow, killer FSB =)

[freecableguy]

[greenwar]

Nice jobs Fugger and FCG. Show us some more benchies now.

[thunderstruck!]

Why not use the highest multi with that FSB FCG? Maybe a vmod is in order?

[Haltech]

Wise words

was reading threw the amd thread to see what everyones plans were for AM2 and all...Everyone there's so uptight...anyone mentions anything about intel and boom they try and cut your balls off and frame them.

That is not true on the XS AMD forum. We know AM2 = Teh SuKc!

Many fellow XS AMD people are looking forward to Conroe.... Myself included.

[SoulGG]

Yeah, Most of them stand buy there selected brands and try to make the most of it though. Because they have faith in them (As most intel users have in the past) But they've had the performance crown so long they feel as if they can't be beaten...So to those who I was addressing. I'm not a fan of either it's about 50/50 with me I own and X2 sys and two PD's on the way for 24/7 workstations

[the farmer]

Two Conroes with high FSB . Conroe so far look good.

[BrownTown]

I dunno about you, but that looks bad to me, in order to raise FSB he has to lower mulitplier, that looks to me like its not a FSB issue, but a chip issue, so that would be bad if they can only top off at less than 3G, seems like Conroe aint a very good overclocker after all...

[the farmer]

I didn't looked at it that way, i was refering to Yonah's FSB wall (or it's mobo related). You have point of concern there, on the other hand Fugger has no probs 8x 363 so he didn't lower his MP. We'll just have to wait for more results .

[cirthix]

up that voltage! lets see what these chips can really do

[Vapor]

Be patient....more voltage and cooling will come with time.

Just think of it this way: when they can, they will.

[fagin]

as long as the calculation fits in his huge cache.....

I keep on seeing this... If it was true then why is the performance of the celeron mobile version so good at SP1, with 'only' 1MB L2 cache?

[kl0012]

I dunno about you, but that looks bad to me, in order to raise FSB he has to lower mulitplier, that looks to me like its not a FSB issue, but a chip issue, so that would be bad if they can only top off at less than 3G, seems like Conroe aint a very good overclocker after all...

I don't think that it is worthwhile to expect large leap in the frequency from the ES of revision A0. Revision B0 was already tested on one of the Russian sites. Unfortunately the matherboard which was used in the test has no freq changing options in the BIOS.
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=89133

[BrownTown]

oh, don't get me wrong, I understand these are ES chips, i'm just saying that they do not seem capable of speeds that many here hope they will be, as of now all we have to go on is rev. A0 chips, so until B0 revisions are tested in overclocking we cannot assume anything other than what we have so far.

Having said that though, the 2.13 4MB chips that these guys have would seem to me to be indicitive that early revisions were not going very high since the 4MB chips are supposed to be higher clocked to begin with, this leads be to beleive that future revisions will very likely overclock better, but as previously stated, so far this has not been proven.

[RAGING DRAGON]

Waiting is the hardest part. Can we have any details of what the temps of Conroe are running at please?

[\Karting_freak]

@Fugger
check your pms plz

[VulgarHandle]

lookin good fugger, can't wait to see what you can do with fully supported hardware

[iboomalot]

I would like to hear the BAD side of Conroe at this point???

FCG and Fuggar ???

poor voltage options ??
poor OCing ???
cold bug ???


Granted these are not final production chips and mobos but what are the down sides at this point Intel and mobo manufactures need to improve upon??

[FragTek]

*subscribed*

/me patiently waits to see Conroe under an uber cascade

Nice results Fugger, that's just an insane processor all around!

[Durzel]

I would like to hear the BAD side of Conroe at this point???

FCG and Fuggar ???

poor voltage options ??
poor OCing ???
cold bug ???


Granted these are not final production chips and mobos but what are the down sides at this point Intel and mobo manufactures need to improve upon??

"Poor voltage options" _ Isn't that more of a board problem than anything? I'd be surprised if an Intel branded motherboard will let you change the voltage anywhere near the sort of levels required for really mad overclocking (though I could be wrong)

"poor OC'ing" - they look like they overclock ok

"cold bug" - no IMC, so not applicable.

[CPLB]

Wow, nice results. Thanks a lot Fugger, can't wait to see more!!