ooppss hold your upgrades.... Athlon64 FX-60 vs. Intel Conroe

[king_coy]

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dell , must be very happy to see conroe benchmarks against a overclocked fx-60..
no wonder why apple choose intel...

I think a lot of it goes to the fact that not only does intel solve the supply issues, intel also has name recognition when it comes to the consumer market. Most people who have never touched a computer have heard of a pentium processor and if they have heard of pentium then they have heard of intel and when you have an ad that shows intel inside it will open a huge new market for apple based systems.

Intel has two unattractive choices: Kill Itanium and risk its partners' wrath, or split its marketing and R&D budgets between Xeon and Itanium. Either way, AMD ends up with a strategic advantage -- and Intel with a silicon albatross.

In addition, switching to Intel gives Apple two sources of compatible CPUs: Intel and AMD. (Just had a thot: once the transition to Intel CPUs is complete, Apple buys AMD to further lower its costs.)

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1438

“The vaunted Intel roadmap is nice, but no nicer than the AMD roadmap, and nothing that IBM couldn’t have matched. If Apple was willing to consider a processor switch, moving to the Cell Processor would have made much more sense than going to Intel or AMD, so I simply have to conclude that technology has nothing at all to do with this decision. This is simply about business — BIG business.

“Another clue comes from HP, where a rumor is going around that HP selling iPods could turn into HP becoming an Apple hardware partner for personal computers, too.

“Microsoft comes into this because Intel hates Microsoft. It hasn’t always been that way, but in recent years Microsoft has abused its relationship with Intel and used AMD as a cudgel against Intel. Even worse, from Intel’s standpoint Microsoft doesn’t work hard enough to challenge its hardware. For Intel to keep growing, people have to replace their PCs more often and Microsoft’s bloatware strategy just isn’t making that happen, especially if they keep delaying Longhorn.”

[StyM]

wow... conroe really is good...
half the price of fx-60, this would be a good christmas gift...

[xtreme_madness]

wow... conroe really is good...
half the price of fx-60, this would be a good christmas gift...

mao

[nitto1320i]

half the price?! yummy.. may ta naa koy extra bucks pang testing aning conroe.. but surely i will stick to AM2..

[king_coy]

that' s what you should do. the proven technology of hypertransport and memory controller have spoken for themselves, porting these architecture to newer athlon chips will give AMD a lasting edge. This is all just marketing hoax. Mass productions can cause specifications to change, and some hardware issues to arise. who wants to play on 640x480 resolution anyway? a true benchmark should measure overall system performance under various hardware configurations. If a chip is truly good, it communicates well with complementary hardwares like motherboards, the memory, and video card. As you see, FX60 was said to have used old athlonxp bios sitting on DFI boards, but still, it performed quite well, how about if newer bios was employed?

Intel and apples partnership is a part of a marketing strategy to help Steve Jobs defeat Bill Gates. "Apple Chose Intel, So Intel can Buy Apple, and finally Scorch Microsoft, and Land Steve Jobs in the CEO Spot at Disney"

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1438

This is actually a battle between Intel and Microsoft, of Jobs and Gates.

[StyM]

intel has a good product, which is conroe...
in 6 months,conroe will be a good cpu choice..
just cant believe that its almost half the price of fx60, and has a better performance....