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Will AMD’s fastest CPU be obsolete this month ?
by ZDNet's George Ou
-- When I saw the first set of independent benchmark results pitting a mid-end Intel E6600 "Conroe" 2.4 GHz CPU
against the just released flagship Extreme Edition AMD FX-62 CPU,
I started wondering if AMD's worst nightmare was coming true.
Intel's ~$350 E6600 CPU annihilated AMD's ~$1000 Extreme Edition AM2 based FX-62 !
This effectively means that AMD's flagship desktop performance CPU will be obsolete by
the end of October 2006 when Intel released the CPUs codenamed Conroe.
The 2.4 GHz Conroe E6600 CPU is a 65 watt part while Intel's Extreme Edition Conroe CPU will
operate at 2.93 GHz and still be 40 watts lower than AMD's FX-62 which runs at 120 watt TPD.
AMD's power advantage over Intel's current Pentium 4 NetBurst architecture just vanished
into thin air with the introduction of Intel's Core 2 Duo architecture
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