Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Preview from Taiwan
 

The benchmarks we've seen show Conroe as a very strong competitor to the Athlon 64 X2, availability could be what limits how much lost ground Intel can regain before AMD has a chance to respond with K8L.

While performance here is extremely strong, we also haven't even touched on the overclockability of Conroe; from what we've seen, hitting above 3.5GHz on the highest end parts isn't too far fetched on air cooling alone. The absolute highest we've seen on air is 3.8GHz from a Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor.

Where do I sign up:)

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86GHz/2M) $183

go for the 4MB chip if you're going for Conroe ;)

cheapest one starts at $316, that's almost double the price, first like to see if it also translates into double the performance