Well, judging from certain benchmark of 965 BE at 3.8ghz and 3.4ghz, Phenom II has to be about x7~x10 to match out i7 920.

availability in malaysia is not my main concern, no money to buy until june anyway ;p
but i would love to see the real benchie. but seeing the opteron vs i7 benchie posted by lex, my expectation of this new proc has taken a serious knocked.. 

im waiting anxiously to throw my pentiumD into my rubbish bin~

any benchmarks? now deciding between i5 750/i7 860 or X6 1035t/X6 1055t
my only concern is power consumption

but 1 think i really hate bout AMD is, their stock fan very lousy    my old p2 955, athlon2 620, athlon2 435.. fans very noisy

I am not good reading those benchmark , so what's the ranking for those 2 processor ? compare with i7 and 965BE ?

still no idea abt power consumption? idle/load??

go here for some info..
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=249434

Someone got hold of it here: [XS]Just got Phenom II x6 1055T (Retail)...

Hi lex  ,When comparing to multi tasking , using cinebench single thread and multi tread ,

Which rank will it be ? because I dont know how to read , what score for it on single threaded ? 2925 even slower than Athlon X4 630 ?

still no idea abt power consumption? idle/load??

So which kind of benchmark or any test software is the most accurate for single thread performance ?

That's because the graphics card was the limitation. If you look at lower resolution, the Intel is still king but at a price. At least for the next 1 year, I can say the X6 should not be a limitation in any gaming setup. Unlike graphics card, CPU power should not be a limitation for at least 2-3 years.

Review is out for 1055T and 1090T

Tom's Hardware (1090T only):
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ph...890fx,2613.html

Call it strange, but we ran and re-ran these tests. In fact, we formatted, started over, and got the same results. In Crysis, our Phenom II X6 1090T-based platform is simply slower than its quad-core predecessor—likely a result of its lower non-Turbo clock rate.

“But you’re clearly limited by your graphics card here,” you say. Alright, well, we’re using the 2010 reference system’s Radeon HD 5850, but let’s try something else. We’ll drop a Radeon HD 5870, a 5970, and a GeForce GTX 480 in the 1090T-based platform and see how much performance a faster card buys.



Amazing—the “fastest” card performs least-impressively, even at 1920x1080 and High quality settings. This is a combination we’d expect to hit the graphics fairly hard, but something is still screwy on the Phenom II X6 1090T-based platform. Now it looks less like our Radeon HD 5850 was holding back performance and more like the processor or platform is to blame.

Let’s try something else. Using a GeForce GTX 480, we’ll compare the performance of a stock Phenom II X6 1090T and a stock Core i7-930, then overclock the former to 3.7 GHz and the latter to 3.66 GHz (both processors with Turbo enabled). We’d expect to see headroom open up if there’s a bottleneck hampering performance.



Lo and behold, even with the fastest single-GPU card you can buy, the Phenom II X6 doesn’t spring to life. Meanwhile, the overclocked Core i7 leaps forward by quite a bit. This is eerily reminiscent of a gaming piece I wrote back in 2008 comparing high-end AMD and Intel gaming rigs. All else equal, the Phenom X4 I was testing at the time was simply creamed by Core i7 in Crysis.

This one gaming test opened up a ton of additional reformatting, reinstalling, and testing, just to make sure everything was reproducible. The conclusion we’re going to draw early on is that a six-core CPU running at a lower clock rate—Turbo CORE or not—is probably not the way to go for gamers. At any rate, onto Left 4 Dead 2.

Yea lol..Intel shud outcome this stock cooler with better build. Not just packed as bundling products to bigger the box..

Several comments have stated that AMD stock fan is noisy, so does that mean it has great cooling capabilities with loud noise as penalty?

Real world gaming.

so which is better or which should i reflect on

You do not need to fully load a core to slow it down. Anybody who used a single core CPU for servers 10 years ago can tell you that. Background process still have to run otherwise you can't run your game. I/O still gets top priority no matter what, OS still gets top priority in order to load your game or any application that runs in the foreground.

Here is the deal, if it is a background process that can be slowed down, the OS would do it. If it cannot be slowed down, then it will drain the foreground process if you do not have sufficient CPU power to process.

BT will utilise I/O as it reads and writes to hdd and that puts a drain on a single core. If you have extra idle cores for the OS to assign a thread to it, then it would not interfere with your other applications.

If you are on the more technical side like me, doing things like running multiple virtual machines and running very heavy CPU and memory intensive applications and heavy programming projects are the reasons why i chose this proc at the first place. x2 can't even do half of what i need, x4 proc is just barely struggling, then the x6 is just ok.

But for me i don't have the kaching to get the intel xeon or amd opteron, so i opt for this Thuban. I really wish there is a board for two thuban proc, but none

Let me rephrase background task. Anything that is not running below Normal priority is not considered as background task. Just because it's not running in the foreground window, it does not make it a background task. Antivirus are not background, they are actually foreground task running hidden from view but that does not make them background task either. Since they all have the same priority, when they require a the CPU to allocate a time-slice to their process, they are going to get it.

That is why most people would report that any installation of an antivirus with active file scanning will always slow down the machine, unless you have sufficient CPUs to run it. I run Jackie Chan Internet Security 2010 and it slowed to a crawl on my dual core last time, exactly the same issue that most people complained about. Funny thing is that I don't have that problem anymore on my X6.

I'm not talking about scheduled scans. I'm talking about the usual read/write file scanning and whatever heuristics thrown in to detect unknown virus. Those will always run, scanning the network and hdd, even when idle.