change my 1075T for a 8120

[passey89]

Do you reckon it would be a good idea for me to swap out my AMD Phenom II X6 1075t for a new FX-8120.

I had a look on ebay and the 1055T are selling for around £70 and with the AMD promo on at the moment it would only cost around £115 for the new cpu for in total only £45 for a new cpu?

 

[Marine-RX179]

Keep your money. There's no reason to pay extra money for "downgrading" to a Bulldozer. The Bulldozer would need something like 500-600MHz higher on the core clock to match the performance of Phenom II.

 

[passey89]

benchmark results for the cpus are

AMD Phenom II X6 1075T 5,539
AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core 7,069
AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core 8,260
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz 6,739
Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz 9,084

So the fx does quite a bit better than my 1075t

 

[Ollie1132]

benchmark results for the cpus are

AMD Phenom II X6 1075T 5,539
AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core 7,069
AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core 8,260
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz 6,739
Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz 9,084

So the fx does quite a bit better than my 1075t

No it actually doesn't. The Bulldozer would be a step backwards from your Phenom as it has less IPC (Instructions Per clock) The Phenom you have should be kicking the Bulldozers ass easily.

 

[Stas823]

If you can get it for £45 then that is worth the upgrade however if you are looking for a major performance increase then you might want to wait for next gen FX processors

 

[Marine-RX179]

benchmark results for the cpus are

AMD Phenom II X6 1075T 5,539
AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core 7,069
AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core 8,260
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz 6,739
Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz 9,084

So the fx does quite a bit better than my 1075t

An unless you got any productive tasks that uses up to 8 cores, on 6 cores or less performance it is slower than Phenom II X6.

Performance wise, the FX at 3.6GHz is only roughly equal to Phenom II at 3.0GHz.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

As others have said, don't bother 'upgrading' to BD, it will most likely be a step backwards, since BD has terrible IPC. If you want a genuine upgrade, then jump to Intel and get a decent IB/SB i5 or i7. Or if you want to keep your mobo, then wait to see what Piledriver brings- but whatever you do, do not buy any BD processor.

 

[s4mmy007]

definately keep the phenom, them amd phenoms are far better than the bulldozers imo, they overclock great and provide a powerful, long lasting stable pc, and they are cheap!