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i agree conroe will be powerful. however i guarantee the samples we have seen have been hand picked. why else would they be set at significantly lower clock speeds than they are "capable" of. my guess is in general only the released samples are really capable of this. i'm curious, these are all Intel ES's (Engineering Sample) with unlocked multipliers right? that would go some way towards explaining things. also the low price has been overhyped, i have not looked much into it but i guess what people keep talking about is what the wholesale price will be so don't expect it to be as cheap as the hype suggests. conroe will be a great processor and there is no changing that, HOWEVER remember Intel knows how to market so don't swallow everything on face value. just remain objective on what you read as you should with any news source e.g. television and newspaper. finally remember that AM2 is a socket transition and a redevoloped memory controller (buggy at that) and is not even intended to be a direct competitor for conroe.