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[Snowrider2]

Muzo, perhaps your bias got in the way and you didn't make it to the end of the article. On the Intel front, there is a lot of time for performance optimization with regards to Conroe and its platforms. It’s also worth noting that the 2.66GHz E6700 we previewed here is simply a high end mainstream part, it is not an Extreme Edition flavor of Conroe. At 2.8 or 3.0GHz, a Conroe EE would offer even stronger performance than what we’ve seen here.

So we're talking about a mainstream CPU against AMD's best overclocked!