ConroeKiller?

With the Quad cores coming, i dont think so !!!

Why do you need this war anyway? Why do you need this "killer" in the title? Just to raise your page hit and your money?

XBitLabs was a great site back in years, but now it is just a common commercial site. Stupid light news ...

I'm sory.

you know what? If the topic is aint interesting or just a plain then will those readers click and read it? Well dude, do you know how much need to maintain a site? If you cant donate or do nothing then stop complaining! Just read it silently and watch how well will AMD do in the future but not give the peace of shitting to complain this or that!

On the slide about L3 cache:

"allocation policy which optimizes movement, placement and replication of data for multicore"

So perhaps intercore data passing is on the way?

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTE1NjI1MzI Mm5VS0FBcVpXWEdfMV8yX2wuZ2lm

i really dont think forcing performance on amd is reasonable,people want to linger on the k8 success and make it their drive ,in hope to revive their ow feelings of the underdog winning a bout.
the facts are with pricing and new market entry they have bought the time they need to catch up;but their big picture is not soley enthusiast ;as a matter of fact that would be the latter of the amd ati evolution.
intel having core 2 is not enough,and first tests of their quad are great but that only gets them so many stock points.
heres where the war becomes incredible,amd will attain new markets with ati,and intels quad performance may be a slightly limiting market growth factor for amd and amd's pricing has thus far kept intel from realizing market share price surging with core 2.
its not just a performance war,each company is strategically conducting themselves in a manner which brings the war to wall street.
bottom line ,amd has time,and intel will try to use its production power tokeep amds enevitable success in new platforms down to a dull roar.
i think well see amd stock hit the mid 30's and maybe higher over the long haul.

Information very well presented.

Hi everybody here
I think this is good move from AMD but it will be very slow if they do it in next year.
that time I think intel will release a new processor they will call it: TKCK
(The Killer of Conroe-Killer)
however it's just a time to see what will happen

bye.
almotlaq

Intel will never beat AMD, and this just proves it. How much does the CONroe cost anyway? More than the AMD Athlon FX!

all of these processors are so above the need of the average computer user as to be sublime , and the conroe has yet to appear on the shelves of where I work. also the cost is prohibitive . ansd except for the conroe amd has every other space locked down!

very good article.

Both AMD & Intel have fail misery for decades try to improve CPU power consumption problem.
The recent improvement is still far from the so call technological break through, not to mention those heat precipitaion still need a powerful fan to cool it off.

Its the most complete preview review of the k8l i have seen on the web....Great job.

Is the best overview i have seen on the web for the k8l architecture...Great job.

Intel's Core Quadro will outperform K8L?

Are the AMD people going to develop this core in such a short time. The architecture looks impressive but too tedious to work out in an year unless they were not working on it since 2004.

Great stuff

I am a big fan of AMD processors, have been using them since 1999, but i think Intel is giving a hard time to that company right now, i am still stock on a 4400X 2 it works great, and keep hopefull about what could we do with 65nm in the overclocking fields but i am shure that we must wait to see what K8L will do for us, and better for AMD if they make a really powerfull and succesfull quad core in the end

Very interesting and explanatory! Congratulations!

More choice for the consumer, it's all good!

Computing is fast becoming a less expensive indulgence compared to the 2-3k most of us paid for our first Intel Inside labelled units.