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Prices have landed im sure you'll find them if you scan the internet
Tad cheaper than expected for the 1055T I think, but 1090T seems about what we were expecting. They make sense when you consider it's basically a Phenom X4 with more cores, which is what all previews have shown so far performance-wise too.
Not sure when it's coming, but there's a 960T X4 that may unlock to an X6 on the right board. That may be competitively priced (not that the 6-cores aren't imo).
Not sure when it's coming, but there's a 960T X4 that may unlock to an X6 on the right board. That may be competitively priced (not that the 6-cores aren't imo).
Actually it is because there is a difference to having a low price to begin with to lowering prices.
AMD have a low price over Intel for a sale, they don't then lower prices to take sales away from Intel.
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Looking pretty good so far, for hex-cores. Will only get better considering the imminent unlockable X4's. 
And while they truly can't compete with the best of what intel has to offer (nor should they), these are 6 very reasonably priced physical cores we're talking about here, meaning they -will- make a difference once games start utilizing them fully. Especially when it comes to poorly coded console ports (most of what we seem to be getting as of late)
Bridging the gap very nicely indeed it seems.
Also, I would be quite surprised if OCuk doesn't have them up by evening tomorrow. Any news on them new upper-tier 890* boards ?
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And while they truly can't compete with the best of what intel has to offer (nor should they), these are 6 very reasonably priced physical cores we're talking about here, meaning they -will- make a difference once games start utilizing them fully. Especially when it comes to poorly coded console ports (most of what we seem to be getting as of late)
Bridging the gap very nicely indeed it seems.
Also, I would be quite surprised if OCuk doesn't have them up by evening tomorrow. Any news on them new upper-tier 890* boards ?
- Ordokai
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a lot of you are going to get banned at this rate, would be a shame.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/faq.php?faq=vb_read_and_post#faq_vb_special_codes
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Cant see anywhere on the Asus website that says my CorssHair 2 supports the X6's 
Been reading your comments... and that 3.2GHz i7 920 you have will be faster than the 1090T in almost everything, let alone the AMD 965. And yeah you can OC the 1090T, but you can certainly also OC that 920 a lot more, mine would do 4.1GHz, wasn't even a D0.
And a D0 stepping 920 would easily OC more than a 1090T.
Intel have more "grunt at stock" aswell, especially with there turbo boost, which AMD has only just implemented with the 6 cores.
These 6 core AMD chips only just manage to compare to a stock quadcore i5 750 and i7 850. If anything these 6 cores show how poor AMD's chips and architecture is.
You've admitted you prefer AMD but i think it's blinded your judgement and is just only going to hurt you when it comes to making decisions (any loyalty to a company is ridiculous).
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Well it depends what you're using it for really. Will 6 cores be an advantage over 4 is the question. In most cases the i7 930 will win out, certainly when overclocked, but you must consider the cost of triple channel ram and the expensive motherboards too for that platform.
1156 is a more sensible prospect, but I have a feeling the socket already won't have as much life in it as AM3 does, knowing AMD.
Preferring AMD isn't necessarily 'blind loyalty'.
1156 is a more sensible prospect, but I have a feeling the socket already won't have as much life in it as AM3 does, knowing AMD.
Preferring AMD isn't necessarily 'blind loyalty'.
Cant see anywhere on the Asus website that says my CorssHair 2 supports the X6's
http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/m4_6cores/
doesnt look like it does
yea you get one month bans as i warned about from personal experience in the i7 930 thread.Nelly said:
all i did was say what price the 930 would probably cost based on the USD prices it wasnt even a price i had saw at any uk etailer and i still got a 1month ban, as did many others who did the same.
i will no longer discuss prices on ocuk because the modding is over the top i tend to stay away from anything hardware related here now
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Pfft i once had a Socket 939 board, which AMD said would last years and outlive Socket 754.... we all know what happened there.
So knowing AMD theres no saying how long AM3 will last.
Socket 939 is about 6 years old, that's a long time in PC land! Look how long they've made AM2 last, and now introducing new 6 cores on AM3. I think their recent track record is pretty good. Intel are known to be changing their socket lineup again soon with the abandonment of 1366 IIRC.
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Hi
Not looking to bait or pick fights or anything but a phenom 965@stock v i7 920@stock edges towards the 965 in my personal experience. Yes the 920 clocked @3.2 is slighty more grunt but I didnt claim is wasnt on a clock for clock comparison.
My personal preference is to have as much grunt as possible @ stock and not overclock ... now flame me if you like but overclocking is not a rule that one has to follow or be shot everyday and twice on Sundays
I'm not alone is saying ... 'but an AMD chip just "feels smoother" in everyday use' ... its not something that can be proved or possibly even seen by all its just something that I experience for some unknown reason.
I'm not against Intel hardware and admit its superior to AMD at the moment for all out horsepower and I have used my i7 [email protected] since I have had it on a daily basis and although I dislike Intel's business practises I would buy Intel if its what suited my needs best.
At the moment my needs are for real cores that give 100% improvement in my chosen apps instead of hyperthreading which yeailds anything upto 20%-30% increase. To acheive real cores that leaves X6 or 890X ... ummm well I certainly cant pay that price level even if the performance is great so my remaining option is X6
OK rambling over and purchase justification done ... I have ordered the 1090T and will give my opinions on it tomorrow after I get it and swap out the 965
Cozzy