AnandTech: Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back

AnandTech: Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back

Intel's new Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Duo Extreme chips might look like Pentium-D chips but looks can be deceiving:
"What you see before you is not the power hungry, poor performing, non-competitive garbage (sorry guys, it's the truth) that Intel has been shoving down our throats for the greater part of the past 5 years. No, you're instead looking at the most impressive piece of silicon the world has ever seen - at the fastest desktop processor we've ever tested. What you're looking at is Conroe and today is its birthday."

These are the chips that will return Intel to their pre-Pentium 4 market domination. Of course it'll be equally interesting to see how AMD responds. There's no doubting the fact that the GHz war is over. The Core war has only just begun however.