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To: AK2004 who wrote (196720)	5/14/2006 12:19:06 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Yeah, good to delete that one, I was about to reply :) Factoring in the clock diff, it looks like a 20% improvement.

To: AK2004 who wrote (196720)	5/14/2006 12:23:51 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: cool, of course one can conclude from those specs that core 2 duo is only marginally faster than core duo (~12%) First, 3-5% would be "marginally" faster, not 12%. Second, the Core Duo was clocked at 3GHz instead of 2.8GHz like Merom, so the actual clock-for-clock performance difference would be even higher. The frequency ratio between merom and core duo maybe also be slightly off Only those who don't know what overclocking is. [sarcasm]I assumed you and others here are familiar with the concept of overclocking. Did you also know that comparing the performance of two overclocked CPUs can at give some indication of how the two processors will compare at stock speeds?[/sarcasm] the upcoming fx would run as overclocked fx60 Kind of funny you should use that as an example since NVIDIA's Tritium platform overclocks AM2 systems by default according to Anandtech. the new amd socket/ddr2 would not produce any improvements what so ever So do you expect AM2 to increase performance in this benchmark close to 20%? Or is a 0-5% performance increase more realistic? fx and conroe would run at the same frequency It looks like Conroe XE will be clocked higher than FX and desktop Conroe will be clocked higher than Athlon 64 X2. Of course we all know that frequency <> performance. lot's of assumptions here, don't you think? Not many assumptions here.