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AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition

Really depends on what gear you have? Do you have a half decent AM3 board already or is this a complete system you are after?
 
Subnated said:
Speaking of Intel CPU's. Is the Sandybridge i7-2600K worth the extra £100 over the i5-2500K?
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Not for gaming. The only difference is that the i7 supports hyper-threading which games do not use. The only reason you would buy an i7 is if either you were absolutely loaded or you do a lot of video encoding.
 
Jordan97 said:
Don't go AMD for gaming, especially a hex-core. Games do not use more than 4 cores and probably never will.
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This is so untrue it's up there with "personal computers will never need more than 128k RAM"

BFBC2 already munches cores and many games coming will make use of as many parallel cores as they can get.

At the mo Intel has the performance crown for sure. BD is around the corner (no less than 8 processing cores on the top models) and I'm sure Intels next offerings will come in >4 core varieties for reasonable money
 
Jordan97 said:
Don't go AMD for gaming, especially a hex-core. Games do not use more than 4 cores and probably never will. You will also see better performance going for a quad-core because they have more cache per core.

For the CPU go with the i5 2500K: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=cp-360-in

and for the motherboard go with the asus p8z68-v: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=mb-458-as
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bfbc2 loves 6 cores & will scale to 8.
also dirt 3 loves the amd hex core as well.

http://www.techspot.com/review/403-dirt-3-performance/page7.html
 
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Only a few games use more than 4, and it will be a long time away before most games use more because currently the only CPU's that have more than 4 cores is the unpopular AMD Phenom II X6's, and the LGA 1136 Intel CPU's which are unbelievably expensive. Game designers want as many people as possible to buy their games and so build them based upon the majority market, which is 4 cores and 32-bit.
 
Jordan97 said:
Don't go AMD for gaming, especially a hex-core. Games do not use more than 4 cores and probably never will. You will also see better performance going for a quad-core because they have more cache per core.

For the CPU go with the i5 2500K: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN

And for the motherboard go with the Asus P8Z68-V: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-458-AS
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When you say not to go for AMD in regards to gaming, does that also carry over to their GPU's? Because I considering the Radeon HD 6970.
 
Jordan97 said:
Only a few games use more than 4, and it will be a long time away before most games use more because currently the only CPU's that have more than 4 cores is the unpopular AMD Phenom II X6's, and the LGA 1136 Intel CPU's which are unbelievably expensive. Game designers want as many people as possible to buy their games and so build them based upon the majority market, which is 4 cores and 32-bit.
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And where is it officially written that the AMD Phenom II X6 is unpopular ?
Also support for more cores does not mean that people with less cant run the games, so no that restraint is not there like say DX.
 
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Final8y said:
And where is it officially written that the AMD Phenom II X6 unpopular ?
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Nowhere, but you get better performance from an X4 because they have more cache per core and so it leads to the question: why pay more for less? Also, if you are willing to spend £150+ on a CPU, you would go SB.
 
Subnated said:
When you say not to go for AMD in regards to gaming, does that also carry over to their GPU's? Because I considering the Radeon HD 6970.
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AMD GPU's are good. They are fast and reliable, but NVIDIA has more powerful cards in the high end section.
 
Jordan97 said:
Nowhere, but you get better performance from an X4 because they have more cache per core and so it leads to the question: why pay more for less? Also, if you are willing to spend £150+ on a CPU, you would go SB.
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Not from my experience with AMD 975 Quad & AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1100T, most of the time the AMD Phenom II X6 beats the AMD 975 Quad & where its equal or loses out its not noticeable.
 
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