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hay guys is the amd x6 hexa core any good for gaming?
is it realy worth it
read somwhere that its not all that good for gaming but rather for multi threading and all that.
so then the phenom2 quad core would be better?
 
Someone said the new i& sandy bridge made almost all the previous generations irrelevant.
 
I will give the Sandy Bridge about 6 months...Have teething problems but I am sure that it will be great.

Still remain a AMD fan tho.
 
If you want to get a high-end SLI setup, then the current SB motherboards won't cut it I suppose.
For this kind of setup I'd say that you should rather just try and get a 2nd-hand Socket 1366 motherboard and CPU.

Otherwise, go for SB all the way. The flaw on the Intel motherboards only affect the SATA2 ports.
The AMD x6 isn't worth it for gaming, given how well even the fairly entry level i5 2400 performs.
 
lol!!! i wont risk it hee hee......rather safe.....just now what about your other pc components has issues lol!!!
AMD all the way
 
Please look at the tomshardware.com CPU charts to get an idea of performance....
Charts
 
I would rather go with AMD or hold out for a Fusion setup.

Remember most software and games haven't being optimised for 6 cores but in the future they will.

Also the benchmark differences are marginal right now.

AMD for the future :)
 
Right now I would buy Sandy Bridge with the correct chipset or wait for AMD bulldozer. No real point in buying current gen AMD.
 
Bulldozer is only around two months away. Why buy now when you can get an eight core very soon?
 
Almost all current high end games is designed around the utilisation of four cores.
Go for the Intel i3 dual core with 4 threads.
The AMD Athlon II x4 get very good ratings on cpubencmark.net and very good value for money.
Don't sweat a really strong processor for gaming to much. Almost all studios design there games around them being able to Xbox and Playstation with an PC port an after thought. You can even play Crisis2 on an almost entry level gaming rig.
If you want to buy a really good gaming pc at a good price buy the AMD MSI board MSI 790GX-G65 that support crossfire. That is the best priced board with crossfire X.

The Radeon 5670 and 5770 is really good cards With most of them they have the option to add another one in crossfire.
Just ensure you have a powersupply of at least 700 watt if want to run those in crossfire.

There is an Asus AMD motherboard that support SLI under R1000 the Asus M4N75TD.
 
Rock Bottom Computers: I completely disagree with you, except for the MSI 790GX-GD65 being a very good priced motherboard ;)

Some games don't require powerful CPU's, in which case something like a Core i3 540 would work just as well. Then you get games like Call of Duty: Black Ops, where you want a beast of a CPU, and if your CPU can run at 4GHz you'll get an even higher framerate.

700W PSU for HD 5770 is way too much, seeing that the card is rated at 108W TDP. So a decent 500W PSU would suffice for 2x HD 5770! It's also not worth it to get the HD 5770, when the HD 6850 costs almost the same and it outperforms it by a mile + it scales better in CrossFire too.

I really don't know what you guys are smoking, because AMD has really sucked for the past few years in terms of high-end CPU's.

Either go for a Sandy Bridge setup with a single graphics card/2 mid-range cards in SLI/CrossFire, Socket 1366 for a very high end SLI/CrossFire setup or wait for AMD Bulldozer.
 
Gaming = who the feck cares, there will be zero discernable difference between any quad core and up if you are gaming at 1920x1080 and up.
Productivity = big differences, but doesnt sound like the OP cares about this wo then... who cares

For someone to say any quad core sucks at gaming is very very silly and I would LOVE to see some fps comparisons where there is a 25% difference (at HD res or up) between lets say a carp Phenom 945 and an amazing i7 970X. Any takers?
 
Archer said:
For someone to say any quad core sucks at gaming is very very silly and I would LOVE to see some fps comparisons where there is a 25% difference (at HD res or up) between lets say a carp Phenom 945 and an amazing i7 970X. Any takers?
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Yes. It didn't have the 945, so I used the 955 instead... is that alright? but...

It got Owned with Far Cry 2 :P

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/142?vs=88
 
xera said:
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You obviously missed the part where I said res of 1920x1080 or higher. Ever wonder why CPU's get reviewed at such low resolutions in games?? Because at higher res your GPU is the limiting factor 99.99% of the time. So like I said, any half decent quad core performs just about the same from a gaming point of view
 
The amd phenom x6 is good if you have a compatible motherboard already and need the extra graphics rendering or video editing power of a 6-core CPU. If you’re building from scratch, Intel still has the best CPUs at the moment.
And as for gaming the extra 2 cores aren't really going to help you much in games at the moment.I'd rather save the cash go for quad and put more money into a decent gfx.
 
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