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new conroe-4m
30 minutes to swap, take the vacuum cleaner and trim brush to that
mess around a 212 thermaltake monster after couple years with a D805. Quick, real quick application of Artic Silver, and four screws to secure back the HS. Fired up the second time at 9x333. 65watts and conroe is 7F degrees hotter than the D805. It's also 65micron vrs the D805's - about 95micron, roughly only 400Mhz faster clocked speed. Already seeing 1/3 off native DOS compression to restore an XP parition from a compressed image. Was 45sec w/ D805 on an 800M binary image, now 30sec w/ Core2 Duo E6850 on same image. $10 bucks on Ebay. What more can I say? When you're good, you're good. . . (Rushed thru the available CPU charts for cross referencing benchmarks, dollar cost averaging for availability on Ebay, and a quick once over for Intel specs/features for the various models - a fair share of them. Think I might have slow my whamerbamer gear-jammer down, just a tad, and got an available 45micron WolfDale for effectively the same price;- benchmarks were too close, and I glossed it over probably not noticing the 45micron technology. Might have been a perfectly aced the "score," otherwise, along with a few degrees cooler added ambient temps. ...Besides, I'd heard high praise before on Conroe duals, and Conroe was kind'a sticky in my mind.) |
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new conroe-4m vs haswell
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:40:20 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: $10 bucks on Ebay. What more can I say? - For the same price -- $15 I could have got an Intel Pentium G3258 - 22micron 3M Cache, 3.20 GHz 53W - Haswell [if and once] paired to a... Gigabyte LGA 1150 Intel H81 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX DDR3 1600 Motherboards GA-H81M-DS2V MB's shipped by Amazon for $65. Special combo deal, MB+CPU, so you know it works (in order to do the math). Though does look suspiciously like a video-enabled MB, as paired to the Haswell's GPU spec's, best I can tell. Which potentially wouldn't require a (mini) ePCI x1 riser/converter - to convert x1 PCI to a full-slot x16 slot - from Singapore, maybe, if more than just one full sized slots were, say, kewl. (I see -all- the gamer reviewers simply love to overclock that 22micron CPU to 5Ghz. Alas, for a 1997-ish CPU, that 65micron E6850 I just stuck in probably wouldn't be worthy for much of an update.) |
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new conroe-4m
I once compared a 2400 MHz Conroe to a 3600 MHz Cedar Mill on same
mainboard - the benchmarks very very similar. So Conroe was about 50% better than old Netburst. I imagine a Prescott-2M would have fared worse, as they ran hot and throttled. |
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