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At $1,000, it’s artlessly not accessible to use the chat amount back talking about Intel’s Core i7-980X. Yes, it’s nice that the aggregation is confined up an added two cores at the aforementioned exceptional amount point. And yes, we’re animated to see Intel extending the activity of its LGA 1366 interface. But currently, your options for six-core CPUs from Intel accommodate the Core i7-980X and Xeon 5600-series chips. Surprise—all of the hexa-core models are priced at a admirable or more. Those prices appealing abundant alone accomplish faculty for the association active heavily-threaded apps in a assignment environment, who angle to save admired time/money on encode projects.

AMD’s Opteron 2400-series processors additionally action six cores, and they’re decidedly beneath big-ticket (as low as $455 for the 2.2 GHz 2427). The compromise, of course, is that they’re not as fast. Here, you’re advantageous for the adeptness to accredit a dual-socket apparatus able with twelve absolute cores. As with the Intel hexa-cores, these CPUs are absolutely abstract on the desktop.

Meet The Phenom II X6

Enter the Phenom II X6—what I’d consider to be the first viable six-core option for desktop power users.

The Core i7-980X demonstrated the benefits of increased processor parallelization versus Intel’s previous flagship, the Core i7-975. With both chips running at 3.33 GHz, it is easy to see where an extra two cores buys you better performance.

AMD’s new flagship Phenom II X6 is going to show us whether spending extra money on two extra cores is a smart move. After all, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition bears a $185 MSRP, while the Phenom II X6 1090T will go for $295. Does a 50% higher core count translate into a greater than 50% price bump?

AMD’s new flagship Phenom II X6 is activity to appearance us whether spending added money on two added cores is a acute move. After all, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition bears a $185 MSRP, while the Phenom II X6 1090T will go for $295. Does a 50% college amount calculation construe into a greater than 50% amount bump?

I’ll be honest. My actual acknowledgment would be that, no, artlessly abacus two cores (and the agnate L1/L2 caches that go with them) does not map over to a appropriately college amount tag. But AMD is aggravating to sweeten the pot by introducing Turbo CORE technology, which we’ve already previewed. Briefly, Turbo CORE attempts to capitalize on the TDP allowance freed up back three or added cores are abandoned by dynamically overclocking the actual three cores. On the Phenom II X6 1090T, Turbo CORE takes a 3.2 GHz CPU and boosts a leash of cores up to 3.6 GHz.

As a result, about any way you cut it, a six-core Phenom II X6 should be faster than the Phenom II X4. The alone barring would be back demanding absolutely four accoutrement causes the processor to bead to 3.2 GHz, befitting it from benefiting from the fifth and sixth cores, while operating at a lower alarm amount than the 3.4 GHz Phenom II X4 965.

Say Hello To 890FX

That’s not all, either. AMD is additionally ablution a revised adaptation of its discrete-only desktop platform. The 890FX ability complete like a excellent northbridge, but it’s absolutely absolutely agnate to the 790FX above-mentioned it. You’ll acquisition that the better aberration is the SB850 southbridge accompanying the adapted platform. We’ll dig added into that allotment of argumentation shortly. For now, accede it allotment two of a new three-part belvedere AMD is calling Leo, almsman to the Dragon platform. The third basic is a Radeon HD 5800-series cartoon card.

First, let’s allocution about what it agency to add two cores to the Phenom II family.

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