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Phenom X6 1055T or Intel i5 760?

I'd say 1055t easily, as when overclocked the 1055t is level with an i7 930 for a lot of stuff.
 
PCZ said:
Nothing i repeat NOTHING in the computer world is future proof.
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How is this true? Future proofing means that when you buy a component, it'll be able to run software that hasn't been yet. In that respect, everything is future proof...

It'll be many years before either of these CPUs are "not fast enough".

PCZ said:
Except gaming performance which the OP is interested in. !!
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True, you also get better SLI support. But the OP said, "games, photos...."

I took photos to mean photoshop, and the same benchmarks that show the i5 is better for gaming show that the 1055t is better for every day stuff.


Personally if I was building a system now, I'd go for an i7 930 with some kind of SLI setup, but that's me. :p
 
Muel said:
How is this true? Future proofing means that when you buy a component, it'll be able to run software that hasn't been yet. In that respect, everything is future proof...

It'll be many years before either of these CPUs are "not fast enough".
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i think he mean in the future nobody knows what future games/apps needs.

also it depends how long the OP means by future poof,
 
1055T, or a 970 if you wait for the price drops later this quarter (still will be >£400 though)

1055T will be taken over in Q4 2010, 970 will be take over in Q3 2011
 
Muel said:
I'd say 1055t easily, as when overclocked the 1055t is level with an i7 930 for a lot of stuff.
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Make up your mind

From another thread

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17065063&postcount=5

Muel said:
For gaming, I really would recommend Intel/Nvidia at the moment. The GTX460 is a cracking card, and you don't get the issues that ATI are having with naff drivers at the moment. (Loads of people say they're fine, but I've just gone to 10.7 from 10.6 and i'm having issues that they got rid of in 10.5a).
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So which is it?
 
easyrider said:
Make up your mind

From another thread

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17065063&postcount=5
So which is it?
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I've posted again in this thread. Purely for gaming, I'd go Intel/Nvidia, but this build isn't purely for gaming, it's for gaming and image editing, and I assumed he meant using Photoshop. Of those two then, I'd go for the 1055t. That other thread was purely about gaming, and from that topic I had 1090t/i7 930 in mind. Sorry if I've been misleading but I was doing two different comparisons with 4 different CPUs, for two different scenarios.

As I said in this thread already though, I'd spend the extra £150 and go for an i7 930 setup over both the i5 and the 1055t.

franco_22 said:
I thought benchmarks show that the 955 phenom is better then the i5 for gaming or very close. Why wouldn't the 1055t be ?
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In a lot of gaming situations, a higher clocked quad is more use than a slower clocked 6 core, so it really depends on the game.
 
But the 1055T clock the same/better than the 955's...

Yet to see a 1055T that can't do 3.8GHz.
 
Muel said:
In a lot of gaming situations, a higher clocked quad is more use than a slower clocked 6 core, so it really depends on the game.
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the 1055t is basicly a 955 but with 2 extra cores...

most 955 can do 3.8ghz afew can do 3.9ghz. a 1055t does the same or even better 4ghz
 
Muel said:
That's true, but some of us don't bother with overclocking any more. :p
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