AMD FX60 trounced by Intel Conroe

[ZWarrior]

BTW, it's not that software on the Windows platform uses 2 CPUs or 4 CPUs, they just support multiple CPUs.  This is known as SMP, Symetrical Multi Processing.

[opiesilver]

Well, you could load up a copy of CentOS on each box and measure MP3 conversion times.  That way you could get a true measure of SMP performance.

[Boomslang]

Good read 6600 vs FX2

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1997005,00.asp

[Edited on 8-28-2006 by opiesilver]

[Boomslang]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34518

6700 better than the FX2

[ZWarrior]

'Bout time they did something right with their procs.

[opiesilver]

And their pricing.

[ZWarrior]

Yes, indeed, the pricing is very attractive.  I feel the pull of the dark side.  Please, someone stop me before I buy an... an... an... Intel!!

:cry:

[Boomslang]

New CPU beats conroe 6800!

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2021888,00.asp

[Boomslang]

In closing we'd like to show you one benchmark that we were able to see run on the above system.  With the Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor we were able to see Cinebench 2003 complete the CPU Benchmark with all cores rendering the image in a short 13.4 seconds!  I highly advise you to download Cinebench 2003 if you can find the dated benchmark (9.5 is current) and try this out at home and then you'll understand just how fast 13.4 seconds really is! For those that don't have the time to try it out our Dell XPS M1710 gaming notebook with the T7600 (Merom) processor completes the benchmark in 31 seconds, the Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor completes the benchmark in 22 seconds and the fastest offering by AMD (Athlon 64 FX-62) finishes the benchmark slower than our notebook at 35.6 seconds. Now does 13.4 seconds sound fast?

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/395/4/

http://www.cinebench.com/

WOW time to upgrade my 3.4 cpu tests at 1.01 seconds



[Edited on 10-2-2006 by Boomslang]