6-Core Desktop Processors

[shawn3090]

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition

Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition

 

How worth it are these processors? Too much money? Enough bang for the buck? Too much power for today's software (see: 16GB memory)?

[Vidi]

Only really needed if you need the high performance. The Intel 6 core CPU is just.. Well, if you get that you must have a lot of 0's in your bank balance. Otherwise for a high performance PC you should grab the AMD 6 core or a Intel i7 quad core.

[Sy_Accursed]

For the standard computer user these days dual core is more than enough.

For high end users and gamers quad core is more than enough.

 

Basically 6 core is the new expensive thing for showing off atm, but given it maybe 3 years or so as specs continue to wander upwards and it'll be for high end users

[Skeptical]

**Drools**

[indy500fan]

If more programs took advantage of more cores then it would be awesome.

[Dracion1]

Mother of all motherboards: http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/

 

Hopefully though we'll have progressed from the Von Neumann model of computing before something like that becomes commonplace though.

[RSBDavid]

Mother of all motherboards: http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/

 

Hopefully though we'll have progressed from the Von Neumann model of computing before something like that becomes commonplace though.

 

I saw that motherboard and I ...

 

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That processor is amazingly cheap (the 1055). I have read articles and apparently you can easily overclock it to over 4.5Ghz with no issues.

[Hobgoblinpie]

The problem is that while the 980x shows boosts in applications that make use of all 6 cores, such as Cinebench R11.5. In games the performance is marginal, and, the higher latency of the 980x over the 975 actually makes it worse in some scenarios.

 

In my opinion, 6 core shouldn't have been released yet. Only a small fraction of applications & games make use of more than 2 cores, so how many make use of more than 4?

[OldJoe]

The problem is that while the 980x shows boosts in applications that make use of all 6 cores, such as Cinebench R11.5. In games the performance is marginal, and, the higher latency of the 980x over the 975 actually makes it worse in some scenarios.

 

In my opinion, 6 core shouldn't have been released yet. Only a small fraction of applications & games make use of more than 2 cores, so how many make use of more than 4?

They have already existed for servers for some time, so it's no big step to release them for the public as well.

Even if i were i doctor, i'd never spend 1k $ on a cpu. The AMD's are really well-priced.

[shawn3090]

Actually, Autodesk Inventor is one program I have seen that will utilize every core on your computer. When it is rendering images and animations, for every core, there will be a little "square" of rendering at a time. EX: For a dual-core CPU, 2 "squares" of the image will be rendered at a time until the entire image is done.

[Skeptical]

Actually, Autodesk Inventor is one program I have seen that will utilize every core on your computer. When it is rendering images and animations, for every core, there will be a little "square" of rendering at a time. EX: For a dual-core CPU, 2 "squares" of the image will be rendered at a time until the entire image is done.

 

Yea, I've seen someone hook up a bunch of PS3's to render the images and do the calculations blazingly fast.

 

That was truly epic to witness.

[Will H]

Eh, I'm still trying to find a reason to have more than 2 cores, and I multitask and play games a lot. It serves a greater purpose to servers and cloud computing, but it's too soon for a PC. RAM is still usually found in 1 or 2 GB chunks, more people need to get 64-bit, IDE cables are still commonplace, and there's still difficulty in ridding the world of the floppy disk. As far as the limiting factors of our computers go, 6 core processors are unnecessary at the moment. It's cool, but just not yet. Also, considering how processing tasks are being sent to graphics cards instead of the CPU for intensive stuff nowadays, the demand isn't going up very fast at all.

 

That motherboard is hot though.

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

I'm actually looking to upgrade to the 1055T when I get the cash too. It's sad but true that most of our modern applications can't make use of more than one core efficiently, but I would definitely enjoy the extra processing capabilities when I want to run VirtualBox.

 

Oh, and it would help immensely for converting tens of thousands of songs to OGG. Just saying.