Great work, and Im glad you got that FEAR anomoly worked out. It is definately exciting seeing such a leap in performance.

That being said, I personally would have put a little bit more emphasis on the fact that these processors are still scheduled to be 3-6 months away, as this is in the most extreme sense a PREview and not a REview.

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good job clearing the air Anand. And whoever was that person was who called me an idiot for saying the crossfire 1900xt setup was GPU limited, I snub my nose at thee.

Great job on intel's part for actually making a desirable CPU and I hope AMD can match or exceed.

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At least a lower price will benefit everyone. As long as processor performance is concerned, AMD won't gain the crown easily. Looks like Intel will be on top again.
I say this is good, as prices for AMD processors were a bit static. I hope for a price war :D

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looks like this round is going to Intel as it did with the northwood.

Let's see what the underdog will have in store for us.

I myself suspect AMD having much more focused on the quad core server arena where it's likely going to whoop ass the way conroe is doing now in regards with FP performance

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This conroe thing is truly interesting news. At last Intel has dropped the netburst mishap and developed a useable cpu.

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Man, we didnt see so many people complaining about netburst when it was whoring the Athlon XP... I agree that it needed to be replaced but it wasn't all bad...

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I just hope this lays to rest the extremely dumb comments I have been reading the past few days regarding this topic.

One thing tho I would have preferred to see Intel do, is use the exact same chipset on their mobo, as it is available for Intel systems as well, is it not? Would have taken away any last shred of doubt but I doubt it would have impacted the scores.

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That's unlikely given Intel want to be promoting their own chipsets which run XFire fine.

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Looks like Intel's "20% more performance than AMD" claims are true... right now. I wonder how many speed grades AMD can get out of its 90nm K8 in order to battle Conroe when it actually comes out. I'd guess two more speed grades is the most we'll see this year (so a 3.0GHz X2) which certainly wont make up for the ~20% (overall) performance deficit... so it looks like Intel will be spanking AMD at least until the 65nm shrink and maybe until the K8L comes out.

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Aside from the fanboyisms from one side or the other, let's just state the obvious:

It's great to see Intel being truly competitive once again, taking the performance lead (once these chips come out to market).
In the meantime, AMD better have something on the AM2 platform that will bring them back within 5-10% of the Conroe performance if they hope to compete. It has been ABnormal that AMD has held BOTH the price and performance crowns in recent months considering that generally one item will have better price and the other better performance. After AM2's release it will likely return it to how it was a couple years ago where Intel held the performance crown by 5-10% and AMD had the better price. In that situation we will see a return to Intel by the money-no-object folks and AMD still championed by the poor and destitute (though I would include myself in that category for now). :)

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