IS the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T a decent upgrade from a athlon II 640?
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So at the moment I have an Athlon II 640, which is a decent processor, but it's not exactly built for much outside a basic work place.
I'm curious if the upgrade would provide a decent performance boost compared to my Athlon II and/or would I benefit from the higher amount of cores on stuff such as encoding/rendering?
(The Phenom II X6 1055T seems to be the only Phenom II processor compatible with my Motherboard, that is still on the market today).
For encoding and rendering definitely, 1055T's with decent cooling can easily get 3.8ghz, 4ghz if you're either lucky with the chip or have the cooling to push the voltage through it.
I have one, I thinks its a great CPU- from my usage and benchmarks I think it equals a high end first gen i5 or a low end i7. I have mine clocked at 3.5ghz on stock voltage and with a bit more voltage can easily get 3.7+ (but I only have a stock cooler and live in a very warm climate- so i dont want to go much higher).
Wait for bulldozers successor.
[QUOTE=ripple3000;33929389]Wait for bulldozers successor.[/QUOTE]
You mean piledriver? A supposed 20% increase over Bulldozer and it's coming out in Q2 2012. Yah definitely a great incentive to wait.
[QUOTE=ripple3000;33929389]Wait for bulldozers successor.[/QUOTE]
You're a terrible poster, he doesn't want to upgrade his motherboard, that's the whole point.
And considering the X6's are flagship for the motherboard he has it's decent upgrade.
[QUOTE=David Tennant;33929570]You're a terrible poster, he doesn't want to upgrade his motherboard, that's the whole point.
And considering the X6's are flagship for the motherboard he has it's decent upgrade.[/QUOTE]
get mad at me for my opinion
He already said he wants the best processor he can get without getting a new motherboard, and opinions can still be bad.
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