conroe is dual core?

[lukx]

Sorry for stupid question but Conroe will be dual core or single?

 

[JSFLY]

its obviously octo-core

I have no idea but I'd like to know also

 

[FallenHero]

yes, it is. There will be no single-core conroe.

 

[secretanchitman]

conroe is dual-core. i think AT's preview stated that somewhere....

 

[lukx]

is there any predictable price? I just wanted to get amd 4400 x2 but now meybe it's worth to wait a bit for conroe.

 

[Geomagick]

The pricing will be competitve.

If you can wait till AM2 and Conroe come out then I think it will be worth it. Both are offering improvements and new technology over existing processors.

 

[alimoalem]

i thought conroe was quad core...

the 2.66GHz conroe that was benchmarked against the overclocked FX-60 (2.8GHz) is gonna be around $530.

 

[lukx]

and when do you think Conroe will be out? july?

 

[Apocalypse X]

Originally posted by: George Powell
The pricing will be competitve.

If you can wait till AM2 and Conroe come out then I think it will be worth it. Both are offering improvements and new technology over existing processors.

Actually thats not accurate.
We know what Conroe is offering becuase of several reviews of the chip itself.
We know nothing about what AM2 offering other than a few little tidbits.

So far its looking good for Intel.

 

[JS80]

McConroe is a tennis player?

 

[lukx]

McEnroe (but you were close JS80)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McEnroe

 

[imported_rod]

I'm pretty sure Conroe is multi-core. So probably dual-core, but maybe even quad core further down the road...

RoD

 

[lukx]

I wish there were also some rendering (3dsmax) benchmarks.

 

[nadirshakur]

quad's aren't out till end of '07 according to this

 

[lukx]

ok final question. do you think that I will be able to BUY Conroe CPU plus motherboard for it, before the end of august?

 

[nadirshakur]

MY guess, yes.

 

[inthell]

conroe is dual and pretty much a desktop version of yonah and quad core is codenamed merom or somehting

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: lukx
ok final question. do you think that I will be able to BUY Conroe CPU plus motherboard for it, before the end of august?

Hard to say... it may officially be out at that time, but will the supply be, and will there be mobos for it. I'm thinking yes, but nobody here knows for sure. CPUs have been late before.

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: lukx
ok final question. do you think that I will be able to BUY Conroe CPU plus motherboard for it, before the end of august?

Hard to say... it may officially be out at that time, but will the supply be, and will there be mobos for it. I'm thinking yes, but nobody here knows for sure. CPUs have been late before.

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
yes, it is. There will be no single-core conroe.

That's odd. I was expecting that there'd at least be some sort of single core chip on the same platform that they can badge as a Celeron whatever. It would be cool, though, if Intel goes multicore across their entire processor lineup (even the budget chips). I get a feeling that it's going to be a lot of fun shopping for parts if fullscale price war breaks out with AMD and Intel. It's been expensive lately with Prescott and the P-Ds putting Intel pretty much out out of the desktop computer performance game (and I'm saying this as the owner of a 3.4GHz P4 550 based system, so I'm by no means a fanboy).

 

[HardTech]

Originally posted by: inthell
conroe is dual and pretty much a desktop version of yonah and quad core is codenamed merom or somehting

I thought Merom was supposed to be the mobile version of Conroe

Intel usually releases desktop chips before releasing the mobile version

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: inthell
conroe is dual and pretty much a desktop version of yonah and quad core is codenamed merom or somehting

Not even close there..Conroe is the desktop version of Merom, and Woodcrest is the server/workstation version of merom. They are all based on the new "Core" architecture and have many many improvements over Yonah, which is a die shrunk dual core Dothan with some minor improvements.

 

[secretanchitman]

i guess they will still have the celeron for single-core only and conroe/kentsfield for multi-core...

 

[obeseotron]

Originally posted by: stevty2889

Not even close there..Conroe is the desktop version of Merom, and Woodcrest is the server/workstation version of merom. They are all based on the new "Core" architecture and have many many improvements over Yonah, which is a die shrunk dual core Dothan with some minor improvements.

Right.

There will still be some single cores, but only for budget and ultra low power I believe.

 

[grant2]

Originally posted by: lukx
ok final question. do you think that I will be able to BUY Conroe CPU plus motherboard for it, before the end of august?

If you can wait til august, then wait til august.. whatever's available then will be cheaper than now.