I was wondering when this hexacore will available in market. I see Cex selling one. But in *coming soon* mode...

It depends on the game. Usually most games nowadays support dual core. But it is a wise to upgrade to Quad core. In the future, more game looks like going to quad core.

The game that support quad core, which is very famous now is GTA 4. I can feel the difference when using C2D and C2Q.

Here is the review on Dual Core VS Quad Core

http://www.overclock.net/pc-games/659536-c...re-vs-quad.html

More core give only little help in gaming.
But in multi threading, i would give a great boost in performance.
I agree with area61, better upgrade ur gc then CPU if u want higher fps in gaming.

Save money on changing new socket... :

AMD Phenom X6 1055T 2.8ghz/9mb/125W RM655 Stok Arrived!

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1118302&hl=1055T

extremely sweet price for a six cores processor..
Sure will get diabetes...

This post has been edited by Cubex01: Apr 27 2010, 12:25 PM

I think to have this X6 but, it is too cheap for 6 c0res...
kinda curious. Why s0 cheeapppp?????

From the review, the benchmarks on crysis between X6 and 980X,
there is no really far difference..

http://www.guru3d.com/article/phenom-ii-x6...1090t-review/16

What special about intel proc is the virtual thread if i'm not mistaken...
Like 6 core will be visualize as 12 cores.. coz of capability of the core to process 2 threads per core..

Yeah.. i'm definitely looking forward to X6. Its performance on 1920x1080 is almost as 980X
But it is 5-6 times cheaper than 980X.. And on top of that it can beat 980X on performance per price...

What air cooler u use?

What i can see here is X6 can compete i7 with its performance per price..
if u compare X6 (rm6XX) and the i7 980X (RM35xx)..
The price of i8 is almost 6 times higher than X6.
How about the performance?
i7 only 3-4 time better than X6..
0r maybe less...

Which QX number do u use?

X6 still winning at multi tasking, rendering, converting, encoding..
But in gaming.. X6 is far away from i7.
And i5 750 performance is also a little bit hgiher than X6.

Btw if gaming isnt ur priority, then go for X6..
It has con and pro...