Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: Plester
beauty of the conroe is the overclocking headroom - way more than 90nm A64s which have been at their upper limit (3ghz+/-) for a while now. a 6600 depending on the mobo seems to have a sweet spot close to 3.6 and the scores in cpu intensive benchmarks at those speeds are shockingly fast.
For example
I don;t care about ES chips, they are hand-picked. The only retail C2D I saw input about couldn;t get past 3.2
Lets wait until Duvie gets his, and I will believe his results.
Err, have you not been following the reviews @ AT?
Granted, they really know what they are doing & they have likely the best air cooler out there, the Tuniq Tower, but they got the E6600 to 4 GHz on the Asus P5W DH, & the E6700 & X6800 to over 3.4 GHz+ IIRC.
It seems with the E6600 or higher, 3.0 GHz is like a minimum.
And consider that a 3.0 GHz destroys a 2.8 GHz FX-62...
Well, i'll let you draw your own conclusions.
edit: I wasn't thinking about the chips AT using being ES...
I guess we won't know for absolutely sure, & i honestly think 4 GHz is going to be extremely rare, but i am sure we'll see 3 GHz+ on average.