Whats the skinny on the AMD x6 cores?

Any opinion on the AMD x6's? Price looks nice and they seem quite popular.....how do they compare to the i7's?

Also who is making good mobo's now a days? Is Asus back on top?
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They're really fucking sweet for the price. For gaming they are everything the i7 is and they overclock just as well as the 1366 i7s.

As far as motherboards go I personally think MSI makes the top notch AMD boards at the moment, the Big Bang style series is phenomenal.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274&cm_re=msi_890-_-13-130-274-_-Product
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Sweet....thanks!
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as far as gaming goes 6 core CPU's are pretty useless since nothing uses all cores. Although it is sweet when you have a program use all the power.

almost better to go with sandy bridge as nothing in AMD's lineup can compete....or even intel for that matter. Hell my 6 core i7 1366 @ 4.3Ghz gets outdistanced by a Sandy Bridge Quad at 4.2 Ghz.
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Whats the model on the Sandy Bridge?

I figured with the x6 I would be set as games/programs are released that can utilize them?

Also vid card will make the most difference still wont it? Im looking at like a 460SE unless theres a better bang for the buck?

I am going to finally do this before BF3 comes out......Im totally stoked about it.
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Brules wrote: I figured with the x6 I would be set as games/programs are released that can utilize them?

agreed...GPU will make the most difference by a long shot in gaming
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Yeah I figured as much, so the 6 core should last a good long while.

Whats a comparable ATI to the Nvidia 460 SE?
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I would say around a 5770 or a 4890....on the new side a 6790 maybe.

good article and source:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card-radeon-hd-6990-geforce-gtx-590,2912.html
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Oh nice link man.....though isn't Tom a huge sell out?


Whats the word on drivers? Either one better than the other? Last vid card I bought was when ATI was having horrible issues getting their drivers right while Nvidia was knocking it out of the park?
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many claim that toms is a sellout....I read them all the time and I do think they have a slight Nvidia bias but its nothing out of the ordinary (i.e. you will have a level of bias from every site out there/its just human nature).

As for Drivers ATI's drivers have improved although they are still clunky and have some issues. And like you said Nvidia's are just a joy. Simple to use and (at least for me) have never given me issue.
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I have an ATI card in my work computer (not by choice). I was having some font issues using the windows update drivers for the card. I decided to try the latest and greatest from ATI. I've not seen the font issues, but I haven't had enough time to verify they fixed the problem. What I did notice is that my WEI score went from a 3.7 to a 3.3. The rest of my machine is high 5's.

LoL - I would have thought after 4-5 years they would have their drivers lined out lol.....
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The drivers are certainly improved in alot of aspects but the entire reason I ditched my pair of 5970s for GTX 480s was driver support.
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Bumpasaurus - I am finally getting around to this new PC build!!!!!!

I want mATX as I don't have the space for a full size case, nor do I want one. Just tossing this out there for some comments before I get with Mike to start ordering some parts. Any comments?

I think the below is one hell of a bang for the buck.....total is like $725

ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
Item #: N82E16827135204
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

APEVIA X-QPACK2-BK/500 Black Aluminum Body/ Front Mask MicroATX Desktop Computer Case 500W Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811144139


Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822136533
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533

GIGABYTE GA-880GMA-USB3 AM3+ AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Item #: N82E16813128490
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128490

EVGA 01G-P3-1460-KR GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130660


G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBRL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231315


AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

After some research and thought today, I may bite the bullet and go full ATX in a small case.....that way I can get a mobo and power supply that will easily allow me to SLI an additional 560 down the road.
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in gaming it looks like even the I3-2100 thumps on the best AMD chip.

i'm personally looking at the i5-2400

might just save up for the 2600K though.

That's all fine and good but look at compatibility for SSDs and whatever else you plan on supporting on it. I can't really see a reason to build Sandybridge over Nehalem right now.
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Why Nehalem, Nikola?

From the cpu side it looks like you only have the 950 and 960 under $500.
The 2600K seems to best both of them.

Yes, but not in any useful metric that will matter until a higher-than 1920x1200 NVSurround setup and the current Sandybridge mobos have quite alot of compatibility problems with various memory, nothing new here, A LOT of new SSDs, pretty much all of them, as well as various PCI-E addon cards like sound cards and other things.

Aside from that the 920/930 is EXTREMELY affordable used and I have never particularly understood buying a new CPU if you don't plan to overclock the living shit out of it. The CPUs come with lifetime warranties because they rarely, if ever, die of natural causes.
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