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bulvai

I was thinking the same thing and you are entirely correct. Intel has the clear lead in CPU's at this moment, at least until the K10's are finally released.

Unixlord

For starters you are wrong. Secondly he said intel core not core 2 duo. Lastly he's only playing cs 1.6 and not folding so the cheaper AMD cpu is a waaay better choice.

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c4r105

No, I believe you are mistaken since it seems the gentleman has a desktop, and the Core was only release for Laptops - thus it seems he is infact refering to the Intel Core Duo E6400.

Unixlord

He could be swapping a laptop for a desktop. Even if he wasn't that doesn't invalidate my point.

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c4r105

There is no Core Duo that runs at 2.13, thus it seems he is infact refering to the Intel Core Duo E6400 (or E6420), as I've already stated. Please remember these are the only Core CPUs running at 2.13.

I think these facts do invalidate your point

IModIntel

Yeah right now, the Intel Core 2 Duo's rule. That until AMD releases their K10 architechture but ever then, Intel's 45nm might later beat it.

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c4r105

The K10 doesn't appear to be much of departure from K8 - more an upgrade than redesign. After the farce concerning R600 I wouldn't wait again for AMD and the K10.

Unixlord

1)K10 has more changes than core2 duo had over it's predecessor.
2)Looking at the modifications it's a huge improvement over K8.
Examples are:
128-bit wide SSE units (double that of K8)
512-entry indirect branch predictor and a larger return stack (size doubled from K8) and branch target buffer
More aggressive instruction prefetching, 32 bytes instruction prefetch as opposed to 16 bytes in K8
Wider L1 data cache interface allowing for two 128-bit loads per cycle (as opposed to two 64-bit loads per cycle with K8)
And many more. It's logical to assume it will be more than a little bit better than k8.
3)K8 isn't as terrible as you seem to believe.
4)Penryn is nothing dramatically better over conroe. Just a bit of extra FBS and clockspeed. You're better off taking a E6600 and overclocking it.
5)Codename K10.5 (I think it's basically like what intel did for quadcores but for 8 cores)

Here's 289 pages of K10 optimization to read through (I won't pretend I read it all)

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bulvai

Hmm, sniff, sniff, methinks I smell a fanboy in the neighborhood. Neither the K10's or the R600's have been reviewed yet so your post is without merit.