Friday, May 26, 2006

Tech Link (Industry): Conroe XE (X6800/2.93GHz/1066/4M)

The folks at HKEPC seems to get another "insider" information. Darn, they are fast. They are able to show the pricing and lot of details about Chipzilla processors. Of course, the best part of the list is the pricing for Conroe processors, including mainstream, value, and the uber performance Extreme Edition at the same price range of $999! My Conroe XE is arriving in about a week or two, so I guess I can expect some OC loving.
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The meaty part, that is, for most cases, I see a lot of mainstream buyers flocking the sub $200 processor, which is the E6300 ($183). This processor runs at 1.8GHz, 1066FSB, and 2M of unadulterated cache. For those who have the moolah, the E6400 looks like a sure winner, goes for a really affordable price of $224.

However, for those people who have been running their systems at 4GHz already, my suggestion is not to get anything lower than E6600. For just $316, it will surpass all known enthusiast CPU at the time of this writing, in terms of pure performance and smoothness in multi-tasking, and that's just on stock settings. I don't really know why anyone would still OC this beast, except for bragging rights, or benchmarking, since it will already be blazingly fast at the stock speed. Of course, some will think it's a mortal sin if this is left on stock, but for most people, stock settings is just the way to go. So, head on to HKEPC and get the full scoop.

Source:HKEPC

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