Intel Conroe Performance Preview

[gvblake22]

@Bit-Tech.net :thumleft:

Originally Posted by Bit-tech

Disclaimer:
Please remember that the Conroe-based system was built and configured by Intel. Both the operating system and benchmarks were installed by Intel performance engineers, so we cannot guarantee that the bit-tech configured operating system was in the same state as the one on the Intel-built Core 2 Duo machine. We were not allowed to make any changes to the Intel-built system.

For our comparison system, we did a clean Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation and used Windows Update to ensure that all of the latest software updates were installed on our machine. The BIOS was tweaked for maximum performance, but PEG Link Mode and all auto-overclock options were disabled.

Intel-built Conroe system:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 processor (2.67GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB); Intel Desktop Board D975XBX (Intel 975X/ICH7R chipset); 2x512MB Corsair XMS2-8500 DDR2 memory (running at 800MHz with 4.0-4-4-12 timings); ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire & Radeon X1900XTX running together in CrossFire; Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB SATA Hard Disk Drive; Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2; ATI Cataylst 6.3 beta (8.230060131a).

bit-tech Presler system:
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (3.73GHz, 2x2MB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB); ASUS P5WD2-E Premium (Intel 975X/ICH7R chipset); 2x512MB Corsair XMS2-8500 DDR2 memory (running at 800MHz with 4.0-4-4-12 timings); ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire & Radeon X1900XTX running together in CrossFire; Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB SATA Hard Disk Drive; Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2; ATI Catalyst 6.3 beta (8.230050131a).

Things are starting to look very interesting!

[drew and not u]

poo on the multitasking performance, but hooray for everythiing else!

[RangerXLT8]

A TDP of 75w for the EE Conroe is half of the 130W TDP of the 965 Preseler. This mean no need for giant PSU anymore. To put it in perspective, a Presler clocked to 4.2ghz has a TDP of 200watts!!!! Looks like my PC Power & Cooling 510 will be more then enough for some time. This also mean that the heat generated by a 100% loaded Conroe will be half that of Presler. I deal with this heat problem every day. I cannot game for more then a few hr straight or my rooms gets like 100F, and we keep our AC at like 71F. This Presler is like having an oven in my room. Everytime I think of Conroe I get too excited.