Upcoming Intel CPU: Conroe, finally killing AMD?!
Add comment April 10th, 2006
Hmm… it’s been a few months but ever since Intel released its plans for this year to release a new breed of CPUs, under codename of Conroe, the markets and the enthusiasts have been just talking up a storm!
Just ask any fanboys of either AMD or Intel camps and it’s been the talk of the town! Based on 65-nm technology, with built-in dual core and sharing 4 MB(!!) of cache, it sure sounds like a [Athlon64] killer! At this past CES, it beat an OC’ed Athlon FX running at 2.8 GHz (while Intel’s Conroe was running at modest 2.7 GHz!)…
The excitement is there as a fellow enthusiast. Intel sure seems to want to make itself a definite king of the CPUs this year as it also released ULTRA cheap ($133) dual core Intel D 805! If you didn’t know, the next cheapest dual core comes from AMD X2 3800+ at close to $300! That’s a huge price gap! The downside is that it is a huge heat furnace! But we are talking $133 here! *GASP*
While AMD plans on releasing a new (just updated verion of Socket 939) AM2 socket, no real enthusiast is… well, enthusiastic! 
Just basically adding DDR2 memory support doesn’t buy anything for us, the fanatics of computer hardwares. Could AMD be really toppled over?
It all depends on two things: 1. What will the pricing be on these Conroes?! Will they be more than $1000?!! Hopefully for Intel’s sake, not. 2. What does AMD have behind their sleeves? If anything, this should just heat up the competition and fuel the race. Go AMD!