Who knew intel's core due would inspire funny ******?

[Pugnate]

First review is from Anandtech

I like the heading:

Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back

Anyone else find it funny that Intel are dubbed the empire. haha.

This is way funnier though from Tom's HW

Well not the heading... just take a look at the image.

 

[996GT2]

LOL, the second one was pretty funny indeed, especially if you watched the World Cup finals and saw France get pwnd

 

[Pugnate]

Well we are going off topic here, but I thought France played the better game.

 

[996GT2]

Lol, I was referring more to Zidane's headbutt move and how his team got screwed over by that, since he was one of their best penalty kickers and may have changed the outcome of the game.

 

[Pugnate]

Man I have to agree with that.

But just saw those benchmarks. My heart is actually beating faster. What the hell. If Intel get availability right, what are the chances of AMD throwing in the towel?

I mean how do people feel about owing a $1000 FX 62 when a $300 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 smokes it?

 

[996GT2]

Yes, AMD is going to be facing some hard times in the near future. K8L won't be out for a while, and even when it does come out it may not be king of the hill, as Intel's Core 2 is very scalable and they could easily release a 3.4, 3.6, or even 3.8 GHz variant. It's like the old days when Intel's Northwood Pentium 4s were highly competitive (and sometimes beat) AMD's Athlon XP line, except this time around Intel is really dishing out the ownage to AMD. I'm no Intel fanboy (lol, I have an AMD system), but the truth is that Core 2 Duo IS the performance king right now and I'll be looking forward to getting my hands on one in the form of a laptop for college

 

[coldpower27]

Actually the first review was HardOCP's "CPU" Review, that is bottlenecked by the video card since they keep using 16x12 with Eye Candy settings.

 

[wwswimming]

well, when Luke was visiting Yoda in "the Empire Strikes Back" movie, he
asks Yoda about the fate of his friends. Yoda says, "hard to say. always
in motion is the Future."

yeah, it looks like Game Over.

i think part of the response rests with AMD management. the Core
Duo could be a huge incentive for some AMD engineers to stay where
they are and do something better. and it could be a huge incentive
for others to migrate to Intel.

Intel can probably offer better stock options.

 

[irwincur]

Why do people assume that AMD is just going to quit. Come on, let be real here...

It is not like AMD has not been here before. Remember the launch of Northwood - had AMD down by 10 - 30% for two years and they did just fine developing a new chip. Why does everytime Intel actually performs on a launch (which is rarely) they get tons of credit and the game is over? Wait long enough and Intel engineering or marketing will screw something up.

 

[imported_pratz]

yeah.. I hope Intel will somehow screw up a little again.. I don't want them to have no competition.. it's going to jack the prices up..

 

[Canterwood]

Originally posted by: coldpower27
Actually the first review was HardOCP's "CPU" Review, that is bottlenecked by the video card since they keep using 16x12 with Eye Candy settings.

Maybe you like to play at 640x840 just so you can test your cpu, but most people don't.

I think HardOCP were just trying to say that in real world gaming situations, you're not going to get uber ammounts more fps that some people were leading us to believe.

 

[bobdelt]

Originally posted by: coldpower27
Actually the first review was HardOCP's "CPU" Review, that is bottlenecked by the video card since they keep using 16x12 with Eye Candy settings.

Except with the AMD system, they turned some of that eye candy off so it could run the games. lol

 

[coldpower27]

Originally posted by: Canterwood

Originally posted by: coldpower27
Actually the first review was HardOCP's "CPU" Review, that is bottlenecked by the video card since they keep using 16x12 with Eye Candy settings.

Maybe you like to play at 640x840 just so you can test your cpu, but most people don't.

I think HardOCP were just trying to say that in real world gaming situations, you're not going to get uber ammounts more fps that some people were leading us to believe.

Well in that situation, a Pentium D 915/945 or an Athlon 64x2 3800+ would have done just as well. So while the fact a Core 2 Duo bests an Athlno 64x2 may not be relevant in such a case, the same can be applied to the situation of Athlon 64x2 beating Pentium D.

Considering they used the other methology for testing the Athlon FX 62 as shown here.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA2NSw3LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The least they could have done was shown both side of the coin.

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: Canterwood

Originally posted by: coldpower27
Actually the first review was HardOCP's "CPU" Review, that is bottlenecked by the video card since they keep using 16x12 with Eye Candy settings.

Maybe you like to play at 640x840 just so you can test your cpu, but most people don't.

I think HardOCP were just trying to say that in real world gaming situations, you're not going to get uber ammounts more fps that some people were leading us to believe.

For some reason I highly doubt the majority of gamers run 1600x1200 AA/AF

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: coldpower27

Originally posted by: Canterwood

Originally posted by: coldpower27
Actually the first review was HardOCP's "CPU" Review, that is bottlenecked by the video card since they keep using 16x12 with Eye Candy settings.

Maybe you like to play at 640x840 just so you can test your cpu, but most people don't.

I think HardOCP were just trying to say that in real world gaming situations, you're not going to get uber ammounts more fps that some people were leading us to believe.

Well in that situation, a Pentium D 915/945 or an Athlon 64x2 3800+ would have done just as well. So while the fact a Core 2 Duo bests an Athlno 64x2 may not be relevant in such a case, the same can be applied to the situation of Athlon 64x2 beating Pentium D.

Considering they used the other methology for testing the Athlon FX 62 as shown here.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA2NSw3LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The least they could have done was shown both side of the coin.

Hardocp at their best...:roll:

Seriously, why do both anand and toms show such large gains while gaming on 1600x1200 and hardocp doesnt? oh yeah, "playable settings" :roll: