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Intel 2500K 3.3Ghz Or Amd Phenom II X6 1090T

is this troll topic or is this question 4 real ??

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my 2500k is faster at 5ghz than my phenom at 6x4.27 was in multi thread.......
 
Lord_ZED said:
is this troll topic or is this question 4 real ??

my 2500k is faster at 5ghz than my phenom at 6x4.27 was in multi thread.......
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I get 7.15 R11.5 results @ 4Ghz, i'm also benching 6.379 sec wPrime v1.55 @ 4Ghz... and 20.2 on x264 FHD (thats faster than a 2500K @ 4.5Ghz)
If i could afford some better cooling (than my cheap air cooler) for it to clock it up it would eat a 2500K alive in those benches.

People jump on the Sandy bandwagon to fast and to eager sometimes. a 2500K is not always faster, sometimes its slower even, depends on what there doing, there just different.
 
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i think would be better go for 2600k or so at 4.6 ghz gets around 9 pts in cinebench and at 4.8 ghz around 9.3 pts.

upgrading my 1090t to 2600k my self here.

edit: with 1090t with 4 gig ram got 7.11 pts didn't try with 8 gig yet probably not much of a difference.
 
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I was set to go Phenom II, hoping prices would drop on the release of Bulldozer... as I've built AMD for years now. Well 'BD' was not a great enthusiast CPU and getting a good Phenom II suddenly became hard!

So I switched to the dark side and (my 1Ghz Athlon axia is turning in its little electron grave, as I say this) I haven't found anything in the AMD range to touch a K class sandybridge on paper - or by testimony, for the ££'s in respect of a gaming PC! Can't speak for Photoshop etc
 
Came from a phenom 2 955 x4 @ 4.2ghz to a i5 2500k at 4.5ghz and the difference is night and day in most games and programs.
 
ussff said:
I was set to go Phenom II, hoping prices would drop on the release of Bulldozer... as I've built AMD for years now. Well 'BD' was not a great enthusiast CPU and getting a good Phenom II suddenly became hard!

So I switched to the dark side and (my 1Ghz Athlon axia is turning in its little electron grave, as I say this) I haven't found anything in the AMD range to touch a K class sandybridge on paper - or by testimony, for the ££'s in respect of a gaming PC! Can't speak for Photoshop etc
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You do realise the 95W Phenom II X6 1045T was available since last year for around £100(now it is £94) from a major retailer?? I know someone who hit 3.8GHZ on stock voltage and 4GHZ with additional voltage. They seem pretty decent for overclocking just like the 95W Phenom II X6 1055T CPUs. One of my mates wanted a cheap CPU to run some research software he was using,and the Phenom II X6 1045T was not far off a Core i5 2400 or Core i5 2500(which surprised me) when all were at stock clockspeeds and these cost much more.

It seems a decent CPU for someone who wants to run multi-threaded stuff on the cheap. I don't know for gaming,but many games only use two to three threads so I don't think it is necessarily the best CPU for that though(unless you run Rage all day).
 
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From what I've read the 2500k (especially if you OC at any level) is the only solution to a falling AMD EMPIRE :D ...In reality AMD have been behind the game for more than a few months :rolleyes: and an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T can't touch an Intel Core i5 2500k... especially once the OC starts!

Whether I was going AMD or Intel, I was always in for a new mobo, ram and CPU, as I was skt 939 - at least intel had committed to stay 1155 from SB to IB. So I bought Z77 to span the gap!
 
ussff said:
From what I've read the 2500k (especially if you OC at any level) is the only solution to a falling AMD EMPIRE :D ...In reality AMD have been behind the game for more than a few months :rolleyes: and an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T can't touch an Intel Core i5 2500k... especially once the OC starts!

Whether I was going AMD or Intel, I was always in for a new mobo, ram and CPU, as I was skt 939 - at least intel had committed to stay 1155 from SB to IB. So I bought Z77 to span the gap!
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My friend was not overclocking though(the other chap was on a forum). Since Phenom II X6 CPUs had comparable performance in many multi-threaded applications to older Core i7 CPUs they can still compete well with the newer CPUs in certain scenarios. However,gaming is not one of these instances or applications which support newer extensions very well,ie,things like AVX and AES-NI.

Moreover the Core i5 2500K was over £50 more expensive - in fact at the time you were looking at a minimum of around £40 more for any Core i5.

Not everyone cares about games for example - I have a Core i3 2100 but he was not much of a gamer.

He was running stuff similar to MyriMatch proteomics:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/20188/15

A 3GHZ Phenom II X6 1075T is slightly better than a Core i5 2500K,so a 10% lower clocked 1045T is not far off it.

He also runs stuff such as VMs. The 1045T has IOMMU which the Core i5 2500K lacked(the other Core i5 CPUs have it though).

The £175 Xeon E3-1230 would have been the other alternative,but that was around 70% more expensive and outside his budget. His usage is not common,but it was about suiting his usage pattern and getting the best price/performance.
 
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Andy_pandy said:
I'm not sure which one to get. Intel 2500K 3.3Ghz Or Amd Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2Ghz


My main computer use is Abobe PhotoShop, Softimage, Maya, 3DS Max, etc.
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I would say a Xeon E3-1230 for around £175 or a Xeon E3-1230 V2 when it is released.

In CB 11.5 both CPUs are much quicker than a Core i5 2500K at stock clockspeeds:

http://en.expreview.com/2012/04/16/intel-xeon-e3-1230-v2-processor-review/22470.html/3

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-2500k-and-core-i7-2600k-review/14

They have semi-locked multipliers so overclocking headroom is limited,but I would think carefully about your entire setup first.

Overclocking means you need to spend more money on the motherboard and cooling too. How about getting a cheaper motherboard and a Xeon E3-1230 or Xeon E3-1230 V2 and just running it at stock clockspeeds??

You can then put the money into a FireGL or Quadro card.
 
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humbug my phenom was on water and all and i could not get it stable above 4.3 cos of MB. AFAIK i could get extra 200mhz more out of it with better mobo but there was no point to invest money in old platform.....
 
If you have the money go for a 2600k/2700k maybe even a 3770k but if your not gaming or doing things that need high ipc then you could pick up a cheap x6 system and it would perform around the same as a 2500k for less.

Although this would depend if you will be overclocking?

Btw I just switched to a 2600k and things that need ipc are quite a lot quicker.
 
i had this same decision and from research and benchmarks, 2500K ALL THE WAY!! im using it while typing this message lol
but seriously, its much better than 1090T
 
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