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Intel's Conroe Previewed and Benchmarked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-the-hood dept.

DrFishstik writes "Anandtech has a few preliminary benchmarks on Intel's new Conroe architecture. From the article: 'As far as we could tell, there was nothing fishy going on with the benchmarks or the install. Both systems [AMD 2.8Ghz OC and Conroe] were clean and used the latest versions of all of the drivers.'"

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  1. Re:AMD Processor Model Unknown by Malenfrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, exactly. They tested it against a chip which is not listed as being as fast, overclocked so they can pretend it is as fast. Big surprise it didn't perform as well

  2. Re:Shock news. by Saven+Marek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    THe simple fact remains that intel needed to do these tests at all, side by side. That's an admission on their part that AMD is beating them and beating them hard. I've heard AMD has some new stuff in the pipeline that'll put conroe out of its misery once and for all.

    Given Intel's release date fiasco's it'll probably come out before conroe too.

  3. TrustedComputing Inside (TM) by Alsee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Code-named Conroe... blah blah blah ...feature "security" is expected to be discussed in the framework of a technology that is based on standards set by the Trusted Computing Group and carries the code-name "LaGrande."

    Intel's new chips have a Trust Enforcer chip embedded inside the CPU itself. Each chip features a unique serial number, DRM enforcement, Sealed Storage to prohibit you from reading your own files on your hard drive, and Remote Attestation to act as a spy on your computer to log your hardware and what software you run and to securely transmit that spy report to other people over the internet. The chip has your computer's master key locked inside, and you are forbidden to know your master key to control your own computer. Other models of the Trust chip are boobytrapped to self destruct if you attempt to get you key out, and I'd wager these CPUs are boobytrapped to self destruct as well.

    Evil as hell.

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  4. Re:Wait and see (faked tests) by FirstOne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Something isn't right, from the screenshot.


    ..Using an award bios last copyrighted in 2003 for AMD's latest FX-60 chip (2006)..
    ..Notice how the AMD Processor isn't correctly id'd in the Bios post.
    ..Even though.. DFI has distributed a new bios version to suport FX60..

    .. This thread indicates that there is some video defect in RD480 chipset..

    These red flags indicate that something is very fishy and Intel's results should not be trusted... (rigged test)