Conroe is hotter than ever before and the fact that Intel chose to display its new architecture already at IDF last month most likely means that it is ready to take the loss of potential customers today, as the effect also applies to AMD. Intel seemed to have a real beast of a processor under development, but its not just the performance of a processor that’s important, the price is often what makes the difference in the end. Now it seems that information about the price of Conroe has surfaced and at DailyTech they’ve published a table over the first Conroe processors. From a consumer point of view things are looking very promising as the introduction model, Conroe E6300 (1.86GHz), will cost $209.
Intel seems to be focusing on 4 Conroe models to begin with and two of them, E6300 and E6400, comes with 2MB L2 cache, while the top models, E6600 and E6700, comes with twice that; 4MB L2 cache. The flagship E6700 is working at 2.67GHz and was the processor that was tested against AMD’s Athlon 64 FX-60 (clocked to FX-62) during IDF. Then it was more or less a massacre and the Conroe processor used will according to this information cost $530 at the launch, the AMD processor cost over $1000 today. But when Socket AM2 is launched AMD’s 2.6GHz DDR2 processor is expected to cost below $700.
Conroe is starting to look almost too good and the question is what AMD has to counter Intel’s new architecture. Intel seems to be working on getting the Core architecture out on the market as soon as possible.
Conroe still does not have an official launch date, but Intel employees have claimed Conroe will launch “as early in Q3 as humanly possible.”
Source: DailyTech
