Intel the new king

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Bump.

Too good to be ignored. Let me fuel the fire.

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I guess I'll limp through the end of the year on this old rig and see what prices and such look like come Christmas Bonus time...

I really want to upgrade but there's no way Im doing a CPU/MOBO/RAM and Video Card right now... screw it.

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http://www.asrock.com/product/775Dual-VSTA.htm

Hardly a top of the range product, but it has AGP and supports Core 2 Duo.

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Meh, AGP is an especially terrible thing to have ATM. I know, I have one too. I'll be building a whole new system.

As for AGP Conroe motherboards, I can't really say either way. Are there AGP motherboards for LGA775 right now? If there are, then there probably will be AGP Conroe motherboards, if there aren't, then I would highly doubt it.

There IS a certain budget sector that will be getting the E6300, so maybe.

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This may be a pretty stupid question, but what are the chances of finding a Conroe motherboard with an AGP slot?

Im sick of being forced into entire system upgrades when all I want to do at the moment is a mobo and CPU.... I dont have $400 for a new PCIe video card.

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wow flanker thats fast:)even though i will only be getting a 6300.

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For reference, a 4.0Ghz E6600 is TWICE as powerful as a FX-60, lol.

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Indeed, Anandtech got a E6600 to 4.0Ghz on rather high air cooling.

Yea, that's even better than what the Pent. D 805 can do ( from 2.66-4.0). Anyways, can anyone see my posts? Cuz when i'm not logged in, i can't see my own posts.

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Still going on with S939 X2.. wont have to replace whole system including 2gig of memory:)
its powerful enough for most things today:)

will see what K8L brings.. and if its disappointment then welcome Intel into my PC

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Indeed, Anandtech got a E6600 to 4.0Ghz on rather high air cooling.

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This doenst supprise me, what does is that people are getting speeds of 3.8 and higher on air with a E6600 C2D!

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We need MUCH MUCH faster videocards. It would only take a A64 3700+ to handle a 7900GTX.

If you go into 7900GTX SLI or X1900XTX Crossfire systems, then the GPU bottleneck is removed, and you can actually have fun with your Conroe at higher resolutions.

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We just need much faster video cards to get the full potential out of the new C2D processors.

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if your talking about me, my Opty is only at 2.45 Ghz.

However, I can't speak about other Opteron owners.

He's talking about me. What I gather from the statement is that if I was going to use the arguement that Conroe wouldn't make a real world difference to us that have A64's, then why do I have my processor overclocked. Since overclocking my processor also probably makes no difference in gaming, and other applications. However I don't overclock to gain any performance, but I do it for fun.

Although I don't need a new system quite yet I'm fighting the urge to get a Conroe just to overclock it. If Conroe does nothing else, it overclocks like no other processor has.

What it really comes down to here is a video card. This just shows how important a video card is to your system, and that it would be wise to get the best bang for you buck possible when dealing with graphics.

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Its true, GPU bottlenecks effectively null the advantage of a super-strong CPU. But anyone that argues while using that reason better not have a Opteron overclocked to 2.8Ghz...*hint hint*

if your talking about me, my Opty is only at 2.45 Ghz.

However, I can't speak about other Opteron owners.