New intel cpus thrash Athlon line?

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http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/306/merom-et-conroe-test-des-core-2-duo/page11.php

In French, but with graphs.
It seems there’s a big paradigm shift awaiting us…
A midrange core duo (400 or so dollars) matches or exceeds the performance of the FX62?

That bang-for-buck graph is set to chnage face once again…

Lele

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Interesting to see… shame there’s no comparisons with dual-core dual proc. machines.

Is Far Cry fully multithreaded? or is the sharing of tasks between the cores handled by the duo?

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Yep cheaper, faster and less power hungry than the 285’s http://techreport.com/etc/2006q2/woodcrest/index.x?pg=6