Core 2 Duo NDA Lifted Reviews Inside

Sengoku79

At long last the veil is lifted, enjoy

The Reg

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/14/intel_core2_duo/

Tweaktown

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=845&cid=1

Techreport

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=1

Trusted Reviews

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=3161

Hexus

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6184

Anandtech

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795

Villain

Yep as I posted in another thread yesterday, these chips are going to put Intel ahead in performance and well ahead in value for money.

8T8

Be Hardware (strangely they posted theirs over a week ago not sure how they manged to side step the NDA)
http://www.behardware.com/articles/623-1/intel-core-2-duo-test.html

ExtremeTech
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1989036,00.asp

Quite impressed, a very good CPU by the looks of it.

Although HardOCP take a different approach to benchmarks and come to the conclusion there is not much difference as far as gaming is concerned with AMD's CPU's.

Firingsquad mirrors HardOCP's findings in that gaming at high resolutions with AA/AF there isn't much of a difference in most current games. Dual GPU solutions seem to benefit a bit more however. I would have liked to see some more benchmarks around 1280x1024 with AA/AF and see how things are at that resolution.

PogMoThoin

Got E6600 ordered. cant wait.
Out performs the A64 FX @ less than half the price. Gonna push than baby to 3.2Ghz (3.4 if possible)..............WOW :eek: