Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

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Intel gave us an hour alone with Conroe and an overclocked Athlon 64 FX-60. And you better believe we benchmarked it. Guess who's on top now?

Intel setup two identical systems: in one corner, an Athlon 64 FX-60 overclocked to 2.8GHz running on a DFI RD480 motherboard. And in the other corner, a Conroe running at 2.66GHz (1067MHz FSB) on an Intel 975X motherboard. The AMD system used 1GB of DDR400 running at 2-2-2/1T timings, while the Intel system used 1GB of DDR2-667 running at 4-4-4. Both systems had a pair of Radeon X1900 XTs running in CrossFire and as far as we could tell, the drivers and the rest of the system setup was identical.

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