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AMD's Phenom II X6 hits the price for performance spot
A HOST OF REVIEWS have turned up today as AMD launched its CPU refresh, the Phenom II X6.
Although it's a new chip derived from the original Phenom II, the X6 as the name implies is a monolithic six-core chip that piles on a couple of new features such as Turbo Core that will switch off half the cores in exchange for a mild boost to the remaining half, or even a single core.
The first reviews popped up today featuring the Phenom II X6 1090T and the 1055T - 3.2GHz and 2.8GHz processors respectively - and reviewers are commending the processors' pricing when you compare them to competition from Intel.
Thuban's Turbo Core technology will also let you play around with some decent performance boosts, for free, that will benefit pretty much any application or game.
Thuban also seems to retain much of the architecture of Deneb, in that it keeps with the same memory controller and cache. So, no extra L3 cache for Thuban. Oh, and it's still dual-channel.
Pricing on the 1090T is around $290 if you’re looking to upgrade your AMD platform. This doesn’t seem to be a bad deal at all. All in all you've got a series of CPUs that will benefit multi-threaded apps, for a fraction of the price of Intel's offering. You also get a brilliant drop-in upgrade for your current platform with just a BIOS update, according to AMD.
Here are the reviews we've found on the net. Not a small one, by any means, but the usual suspects are all present. Draw your own conclusions after reading through a few:
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I've saw some reviews, the Phenom II X6 1050T is a pretty nice workhorse for it's price, why there's no word about it from the INQ?
I am glad to see AMD back in the game again because this will drive Intel to do something - either lower prices or raise performance. And the circle repeats for our benefit..
However, as I read the reviews the CPU seems to do well but only if compared to an i7 920/930. But its a 6-core.
Then several articles says it wins on price/performance. Thats a crap metric. Crap performance at a lower price is still crap performance. Dont apologize - the performance is lower at a lower price. ITs still worth buying...
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Hi Mike McUltee' here, Gigabyte just started Retail sales of 4 new mains, ALL X6 & One, UD7, Today. Yippee'.
Second quick note, AMD April newsletter to Developers Is In Here:
http://amd-member.com/newsletters/DevCentral/1004.html
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