phenom X6, just a drop in process?

SupermotoMX · 26 May 2011 at 01:54

my spec is in my sig, thinking of getting a phenom x6, i mostly game / record / edit / upload to youtube, record with fraps, now dont get me wrong its fine, but i want to speed up the process, thinking the X6 will speed it up nicely

my main question, will it be okay to just drop it in my current rig in my sig?

off - question, i like seeing the cpy / ram % on my g15, if i had the phenom x6 will it bugger it, or will it just show 4 of the cores?

oh, and to add, i will be upgrading to 8gig ram around xmas time, just wanting to speed up rendering times.

Shadz · 26 May 2011 at 02:02

Yeh it should work fine as long as its an AM3 processor cant see why it would not work,
It should just show as 4 more cores on the G15 but im not 100% sure on that.

SupermotoMX · 26 May 2011 at 02:12

yea it is a am3, just hoping my psu would cope with dropping in effectively an extra 4 cores, maybe overclocking it to 3.5 / 3.8

with the g15 the cpu bar is only 4 pixels wide so could only show 4 cores?

edit: just noticed i never said what my psu is DUUUh.... my psu is the corsair TX 650

fruman23 · 26 May 2011 at 02:39

I had the phenom x6, all cores are displayed on the g15?

Shadz · 26 May 2011 at 03:52

If you want to know if your PSU will be big enough to cope with the hardware that
you have got then I would highly recommend going onto the following web-site:

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

If you put in the spec of your PC, or a close to as you can get then click calculate
at the bottom it will tell you ther Watt that your PC will draw, gives you a good idea
of whether you will need a new PSU or not then.

Hope this helps you out m8.

SupermotoMX · 26 May 2011 at 17:08

errm... i just done it for my current spec... and it says minimum psu wattage - 830watt... LOL.. it seems a tad off considering my HX650 barely gets warm to the touch, im guessing nobody really knows how much wattage the 4870x2 pulls D;

DragonQ · 26 May 2011 at 17:17

Even revision 1.0 of your motherboard supports all the Phenom II X6 CPUs so you should be fine. Make sure you update your BIOS to the latest version first though to ensure compatibility.

olivier renault · 26 May 2011 at 17:18

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2556/22

that's 430W under load, and with a QX9770 @ 3.2GHz. So not exactly low on power requirements. HX650 should be good up to 550-600W.

Also, I've had windows having problems recognising my 1055T. Can't remember what I did to fix it :/ It's possible it will show as 4 cores in the task manager.

SupermotoMX · 26 May 2011 at 19:17

my motherboard revision is 2.1 (thanks ocuk

) and running the latest bios thing so im guessing the new chip will be find, and i am planning on getting rid of the 4870x2 and getting a 5870 or something