I'm definitely getting a Penryn, that it's this big FPS difference between Conroe and Penryn at same clock speed even in Crysis, imagine what it will be like when comparing a max clocked Conroe vs max clocked Wolfdale in other CPU demanding tasks too. In average Wolfdale perhaps will clock 400 ~ 500MHz higher than Conroe too so.
My plan is getting an E8400 as I expect it to be quite cheap 200 EUR or so at launch and sell my current E6750 for hopefully around 140~150 EUR here in Finland (it's expensive here), so perhaps sth along 50~60 EUR loss and then my goal is 4.2~4.3GHz stable (I think it's very possible judged by what I've seen by the E8500 and E8400 results so far). At 4.3GHz it would be ~15% clock speed advantage and in CPU demanding tasks Penryn seems to be even ~10% faster clock for clock than Conroe so I'd get around 25% performance boost for 50~60 EUR spent, works for me and I just love playing with new hardware that clocks nicely. 4.3GHz C2D 24/7 stable on air would have a "satisfaction value" for me too.
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