Originally posted by: OcHungry
OK, I went ahead and did the Cinebench 3D Rendering in 64bit(for vista and winxp 64 users) and resulted in a quite a bit improvement. the single CPU score is 434 (right at overclocked e6300) and the dual CPU score is 887 (way above overclocked e6300, e6600 and damn near X6800). The dual CPU is what you should pay attention to, since you have bought a dual core and multitasking is of your interest.
Here the true 64 processor shine and can be appreciated. I haven?t even overclocked the GPU (if that matters any) or do have any state of art graphic card.
Folks these conroe pushers are beyond believe. Don?t pay attention to their insults and name callings. This is the way these people always react when cornered.
As you can see when I use win vista or winxp 64 I can get near the performance of a core 2 X6800 (>$1,000.00 chip). More importantly, the score I get is way above overclocked 6400, 6300 and way above E6600 at stock).
This is w/ a $230 CPU, a $70 motherboard, and a $115 (7600GT) single vid card.
Don?t waste your money on what you don?t need you can get for 1/3rd less. You don?t need the glory of conroe the pusher forcing on our throat.
Be practical. Look at the screenshot bellow and the benchmarks and decide for yourself.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8383/09292006020304km9.jpg
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2802&p=7