Core 2 Reviews All Around the Web

NerdMaster writes "NDA for Intel Core 2 CPUs was lifted on the night from yesterday to today and all major hardware reviewing websites are posting Core 2 Duo E6700 and Core 2 Xtreme X6800 reviews. Here is a collection of several reviews so you can check for yourself whether Core 2 Duo is faster or not than Athlon 64 X2. Reviews posted at Tom's Hardware Guide, AnandTech, HEXUS, Hardware Secrets, OCAU, TweakTown, HotHardware, The Tech Report, Trusted Reviews, Legion Hardware, bit-tech, ExtremeTech, Legit Reviews, Sharky Extreme, HardOCP, PC Perspective, GotFrag Hardware, Gamepyre, X-bit Labs - Part 1, tbreak, neoseeker and Byte Sector." We've already touched on this technology, but there has been (obviously) a lot of discussion about it since it was announced.

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Re: Response from a Fanboy

[moosesocks]

Economics 101.

You buy the best product available on the market. This way, *everyone* is encouraged to compete and improve their products. I've always die-hard AMD fanboy, but nonetheless, I will most likely be making my next computer run on Intel, simply because at the moment, Intel offers a better value.

If AMD's got a loyal captive audience, they have no need to innovate. If AMD has no need to innovate, Intel has no need to innovate, and everybody loses.

I certainly hope AMD continues to grow and innovate, as they've produced the most significant advances in cpu technology over the past few years, whilst Intel's products have mainly been flops (Itanic, anyone?). The Core line of chips is an odd anomaly, as it wasn't designed by Intel's main R&D branch, and is heavily derived from their *mobile* chips wihch were in turn, based off of the older Pentium 3 architecture.