PhenomII X6 1100T Black Edition

[CommanderCrazy]

To start, I dont care that there are better chipsets out. I know full well that this is an average, mid range one. Its in my budget, and first glance at some charts and benchmarks makes it look fairly nice.

Its better than my current one at least.

 

The question: Is it good? Does anyone have experience with it?

Edited June 11, 2011 by CommanderCrazy

[Thor.]

Its a good cpu, i would buy it, since a have a Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Edited June 11, 2011 by Thor.

[Vecna6667]

Yes, that is AMD's best CPU at the moment.

[hoofhearted4]

so whats the difference between this AMD (the one in the OP)

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103913&Tpk=PhenomII%20X6%201100T%20Black%20Edition

 

and this i5-2500k:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072&cm_re=i5-2500k-_-19-115-072-_-Product

 

besides price of course

[CommanderCrazy]

The difference is:

1 - Newegg doesnt ship out of the US.

2 - As stated in the now red and bold text in the OP, I dont care about other chipsets. I want to know about this one.

 

EDIT: Intel based motherboards that arent LGA775 are generally 'damn' expensive. Factor that into the price of the actual chipset and its out of my budget.

Edited June 11, 2011 by CommanderCrazy

[hoofhearted4]

wasnt suggesting another chipset. i was simply asking for my own learning experience. idk anything about this stuff so im trying to learn. the AMD was cheaper and i wanted to know why the intel was more expensive, if it offered something more. because im trying to build my own PC right now so i wanted to know the pros and cons between those two.

 

no need to get your panties in a bunch. i read your OP. my question benefits both of us

[CommanderCrazy]

Ok, I misunderstood you. Apologies.

 

TBH, I dont exactly know why the i5 is more expensive. The X6 has bigger cache sizes, more cores, and they both offer the same clock speeds.

Intel chipsets are generally more expensive though. Its always been that way :\

[Vecna6667]

The i5-2500K, despite having only four cores, actually matches up favorably against the Phenom II X 6, especially in games. Most games aren't optimized for hexa-core CPUs, and other software that is programmed for that many cores go well beyond that and the LGA1366's i7-980x and i7-990x with hyperthreading, have essentially 12 cores(6 physical, 6 virtual.) The link at the end of this post is to a publication that list their best products in categories.

 

Now the Sandy Bridge chip, with the built in graphics processor, is almost as good as nVidia's top GPUs when it comes graphics accelerated software. And I've said this before halfhearted4, Intel chips tend to be faster for some reason that defies expectations. An AMD will win some benchmarks against an Intel chip, but only in multithreaded programs(like handbrake) and only if the AMD chip has more cores. However, if the program favors speed, a 3.4GHz Intel cpu beat out a 3.4GHz AMD cpu 9 times out of 10(taking into consideration that not everyone will have the same results and taking turbo boost or turbo core out of the mix.) But in all honesty, trying the compare the speeds of an Intel cpu to an AMD cpu is like comparing apples to oranges. Besides, dedicated GPUs are more important to today's PC games anyways. You just need a CPU to make its requirements.

 

Now to elaborate on an AMD cpu's biggest advantage CommanderCrazy, if you're AM3 socket motherboard were to die, and only the newer AM3+ socket motherboards(AMD's most recent socket) were available to replace it, you can still use the Phenom II X 6 1100T with the AM3+ motherboard. AMD doesn't force you to buy a new cpu to go with every new socketed motherboard like Intel does.

 

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EDIT: As for the price reasons, it could be Intel's total cost is higher. They do advertise their CPUs on TV and I've never seen and AMD commercial and advertising costs. Another possible reason is business strategy(which I personally doubt in this case.) Pricing a product low tells potential customers that you only care about selling the product and not interested repeat customers and will only provide the support as required by the basic warranty. Yeah, it works during tough economic times like right now, but when the economy recovers, it becomes a problem as price becomes less of a factor.

Edited June 12, 2011 by Vecna6667

[CommanderCrazy]

I dont want to have a supercomputer. I want a computer that can play games with almost no stress, yet still do my web browsing and the like on it as well.

Hence why I dont want to break the bank on an intel processor. They are pretty much all $300+ unless you want a crappy LGA775 based processor. Which, as you can tell, i dont. I want to play more than just Minesweeper :P

Edited August 3, 2011 by CommanderCrazy

[hoofhearted4]

sorry for the necro, but ive been looking at the AMD CPUs lately and im curious, is there any real difference between a 1090T and the 1100T besides the 100mgz increase which means nothing since id be over clocking it anyways.

 

ive read a little about that the 1100T has high binning or something, but i didnt understand what they were talking about. to me it seams the 1090T does the same thing, but cheaper and would be a small chunk of change to save to get the 1090 over the 1100

 

hope someone can provide some insight :)

 

EDIT: the price differences werent what i thought. when they came out it was like a $70 difference which is now like a $15 difference. which is nothing, but still for learning purposes, my questions still stand :)

Edited August 3, 2011 by hoofhearted4