AMD's Six-Core Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Reviewed

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• Lolimaster - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  Other reviews that are worth to see.
  
  www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/04/27/amd-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-black-edition/4
  www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24332&page=8
  
  Seems that only anand put Thubies as so so cpu.

• Calin - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  From Bit-tech review:
  Conclusion
  Despite being an astonishing £600 cheaper than the exorbitantly-priced Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, the X6 1090T BE still isn’t a very good buy

• sciwizam - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  TigerDirect seems to have $50 rebate on the 1055T.
  
  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool...
  
  If Bing Cashback is applicable, there's another 12% off.

• sciwizam - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  Correction: Bing Cashback site says 8-10% for TigerDirect.

• Roland00 - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  There are two ways you can get cashback with Tiger direct
  
  1) If you look under cashback stores you get a lower cashback.
  2) If you use the search bar and type in a key term you will get a different cashback, with TD the key term is "Tigerdirect" with this trick you will get 12.3% cashback

• Roland00 - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  Tigerdirect now has a $50 dollar mail in rebate on the 1090T BE, making the total 249 After Rebate
  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool...
  
  If you do bing cashback and actually search for tigerdirect you get 12.3% bing cash back.
  $299.99-$36.89 (12.3% Bing Cash Back)-$50.00 (Mail in Rebate)=$213.10 after rebates and bing cash back

• max347 - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  Usually AT is my go to hw reviews, but I have to say the overclocking section doesnt even look like any effort was put into it. Its a BE part, and you dont review how well it tweaks? Other reviews on the net have this at 4ghz+, and do all the charts with the oc and non oc included.
  
  I think most people who by the BE part will not keep the stock cooler. I use a TRUE cu, though I realize mainstream might be something a little less. At least throw a zalman 9xxx on there and see what it can do with that. Benched at 4ghz, the 1090T is competitive right up to the 980x (stock), which I think gives people a little more info on how high they can "reach" with this cpu.
  
  I am in no way an AMD fanboy, but the $300 price tag for this performance seems like a leap for AMD. It has always been in my mind price/performance rather than work/clock cycle or the like.
  
  Anyway, Thanks for the review!

• pjconoso - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  In addition to the price, keeping the processor in the same socket is another plus to this processor.

• ViRGE - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  Are those other reviews using a 32bit OS or a 64bit OS? The last time I checked, the Phenom/Athlon II series was still poorly overclocking in 64bit mode. If it's still happening then any overclocking results would vary wildly depending on the OS used.

• yankeeDDL - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - link

  I understand (and substantially agree with) the comments and conclusions regarding how the 6-cores Phenom compares against 2 and 4 core CPUs from Intel.
  I wonder though if these benchmarks are capturing the real benefits of 6 cores.
  In my 'daily' use I have several programs running in background: virus-scan, instant messaging, music players, email clients, browsers (that regularly update RSS feeds) and sometimes also torrent clients. These all consume some CPU cycles, obviously.
  With all these running in background, I wonder if the difference between a 2-core and a 6-core CPU will be more pronounced.
  In other words: does it make sense to compare two multi-core CPU by running a single application at the time (albeit, possibly, a multi-threaded one)?