I just bought it. Currently setting up. Will post CPUz screen when I get the rig up and running.

1055T. Lets see how far this baby can go when it comes to overclocking.

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Added on April 25, 2010, 10:45 amPaired with Gigabyte 770T-USB3.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Apr 25 2010, 10:45 AM

That is why I didn't choose this board. The build-in graphics card is a waste. The only USB3 motherboard from Gigabyte that I can find is the 770. The cooler is definitely noisy. Will have to change that next.

Actually 1K Nett...

You can get it for less at Lowyat. I got mine from PCZone at RM630.

Coz it's AMD. Yes.. there is no way for it to fight with Intels 6 core I7 980 extreme but the price difference is like heaven and earth.

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.

One thing is for sure.. it runs cool... this taken just now at room temp with original AMD heatsink.

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That was idle..

This one is while playing DragonAge Origins.. which is actually still running in the background while I'm posting this. Still cool...


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Stock heatsink is copper base with 4 heat-pipes. Top down fan.

It's noisy because it is spinning at max speed, 4000 rpm, all the time. I need to check why the motherboard is not reducing the speed of the fan when the cpu is idle and cool. It should be spinning no more than 2500-3000rpm for it to be quiet.

This is where most people have a slight misunderstanding. If you have a game that runs on 4 core and you only have 4 cores, therefore your game cannot run at 100% because you have left no core for your OS, your antivirus, I/O systems, firewall, bittorrent, etc etc. They will have to share the 4 cores with your game.

This is where the additional cores come in handy, for now and the future. We are not asking people to change from 4 cores to 6. If you are looking to build a new system, like I did, then no point going for 4 when 6 is about the same price.

This is the same issue when dual core CPUs first came out. People were screaming NO POINT having 2 cores when games can't use it. Well, if the game use one, the other one can service the OS. Later the same people are the ones asking for MORE than 2 cores.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Correct but it is when you perform and operation that reads files and invokes scanning that slows down the system. When the antivirus is idle, so is the system and it also means I'm not using it. Any read write operations that involves most files are scanned by any active antivirus system and that usually happens when you use the machine. That is why game/apps loading time is always increased with anti-virus running

Yes, the antivirus slows down but the more the more core you can feed it, the faster it will run. Loading Vista on my dual core and X6 is about the same speed without the antivirus running. With the antivirus running, I hardly feel any difference on the X6 while the dual core takes a much longer time to load up. Furthermore, all 6 cores are being utilised with the OS distributing threads across it. Heck, even when I'm surfing the internet I have activity across all 6 cores.

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.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Apr 30 2010, 02:46 PM

2 types of Jackie Chan antivirus.. one is just an antivirus and the other is the internet security. Internet security is more than just an antivirus and it integrates into your browser and network drivers to provide firewall protection too. So it is always scanning when you are just even clicking on internet pages or having any sort of network access.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: May 1 2010, 09:40 AM