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AMD 6 Core

reply to Cheese
Keep in mind that for gaming, even dual-cores still perform just as well in 99% of the games out there. So I wouldn't invest extra money in anything beyond quad-core right now.
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reply to Cheese
Here is a quote from a review I read when the Phenom II X6 line first came out.

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The Phenom II X6 1090T is actually quite competitive in terms of performance/dollar. The $285 price point is 71% lower than the i7-980X, so that gives it a huge advantage when looking at this particular metric. The chip certainly is not 71% slower than the 980X! The i5-530 and X4 955 rule the roost with their particular combination of cores and price. The i5 is very good at games, while the X4 provides a nice balance of cores and performance in multi-threaded applications.

The 1090T does fall down a bit when it comes to games, as it performs on par with the X4 955 which is $155. As such, its ratio is inferior to other, more budget oriented CPUs.

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reply to Mchart

reply to Mchart

Never said go with dual core.

I said I wouldn't spend the extra cash on a six-core.
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Have both games, and the E8400 has no issues with nearly maxed out settings.
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Whatever man, not going to argue with you over a stupid thing as games using more than 4cores.

To the OP: if you have the money go for it, you will be pleased that you did in the end.

reply to Cheese
This is why I never upgrade my computer until everyone else buys things that are not needed and drive the price down for the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps.

Hardware is 5+years ahead of software. Why spend the money on the latest and greatest only to never be able to use it??????????? 5yrs later, your computer is still fast, but now you have to upgrade your video card to play other games that were just released.

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reply to Cheese
Only 20 apps uses quad core. so if your using any of these apps and want to browse internet, play games or do other things at the same time then 6 core will be worth.

reply to Cheese
There are a couple of different ways of looking at it. When the Phenom II X6 perform like a Phenom II X4 then perhaps 4 cores are being used in both cases. When the cores are not being taxed then Turbo Boost might push the few used cores harder yielding better performance. So all cores don’t necessarily have to be taxed to see a performance gain. Naturally if all 6 cores are being utilized then that should yield a performance boost as well but clearly this would be the minority of available games and probably wouldn’t yield significant gains over a quad,…..especially a quad with a higher instructions per cycle ratio. Most of the gaming benchmarks I have seen have the Phenom II X6 1090T performing at or near the level of a Phenom II X4 955. Different games and overclocking might change that though,…..

At any rate, buying for future performance that cannot be fully realized now isn’t necessarily a wise choice but if you have the money burning a hole in your pocket then why not go for the gold. I personally would rather have a Phenom II X6 then a Phenom II X4 and they are both reasonably priced (attainable) but I do more them gaming and currently have two Core i7 systems.

I will point out though that the Intel Core i7 950 will supposedly undergo a price drop to the entry level Core i7 price point at ~$300. While this in itself may not mean much it might prompt an impromptu price drop of the Phenom II X6 or a newer model might be pushed out the door sooner than expected to address this. So it might be a good idea to wait a little to see where things fall.

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reply to Octavean
I'd take the X6 over the X4 just for the new stepping (cooler, better OC in 64bit and turbo mode).
AMD said the new stepping won't be making its way into retail X4 chips.

reply to Cheese
Ok, well, I did it. Got X6 1055T along with an ASUS M488T-M with 2gb PNY DDR3 1333.

PNY Model number MD2048SD3-1333

I am having random lockups. It doesn't matter where it's at, or if I am doing anything at all, for example, the Win 7 splash screen will not load past if I reboot, I have to restart it to come up properly.

I am running a Kingston 64gb as the boot drive, 2 x 74gb Raptors in a RAID 0 on the main-board itself. I run 2 x 500 in a 4 port SATA RAID card in RAID 1. 1 SATA ODD. X-FI Titanium Pro Fatality. PC POWER and Cooling 750 PSU.

Everything ran like butter until I replaced the main-board, cpu and memory.

Anyone have any ideas what could be the potential issue? I am going to run Memtest86 tonight, I have flashed the BIOS to the most current version but same issue. I figure it's the board or memory. We also set the timings in the BIOS directly but still did nothing.