AMD Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Six-Core Processors Review Comment Thread

[Wurmer]

I'll be buying the 1090T when I have some cash available. It will be a good match for my 890 GX Mobo that was bought specifically for that purpose... Of course I don't need a 6 cores processor but I'll buy it just the same. What's is a guy do hey ? I just love new toys.

[enzo matrix]

April 27th:
Due to severe time constraints we won't be wow'ing you with our extensive overclocking endeavours, but here is a teaser for an overclocking article that will be posted next Wednesday:

Did I miss that article yesterday or is it late or forgotten? Or are you guys having trouble overclocking the chip?

[MAC]

Originally Posted by enzo matrix

Did I miss that article yesterday or is it late or forgotten? Or are you guys having trouble overclocking the chip?

No, it's my fault, life got in the way

Overclocking the X6 is easy, but doing it across four different motherboard adds another element of difficulty

The article will out in a couple of days, sorry for the delay.

[jcmaz]

Originally Posted by Zero82z

3-phase voltage regulation? Not a good idea.

So the more Phase voltage regulators you have the better/stable the power to the CPU will be?

But i'll probably sell my existing mobo/cpu/ram when my 770T gets returned from Gigabyte.

[_dangtx_]

Originally Posted by MAC

No, it's my fault, life got in the way

Overclocking the X6 is easy, but doing it across four different motherboard adds another element of difficulty

The article will out in a couple of days, sorry for the delay.

from the above we should expect some 7 series mobo clocking fun too? :)

[sswilson]

To follow up on my previous question about being able to clock individual cores.... that now appears to be possible using the ASUS OC software (turbo core or whatever they call it).

This in turn brings up an interesting thought.... if it's the overall heat of the individual cores causing stability to crap out under heavy OC load... wonder if just clocking the "outer" cores a bit higher would allow for an extra 100 Mhz on those cores.... not a big deal for day to day operations, but might be something to look into when benchmarking.

One thing I can say for sure is that NB OC is crucial on these chips for day to day operations. The difference in "snappiness" of the OS between default 2000 NB and a 2600 NB is night and day.

[MAC]

Originally Posted by jcmaz

So the more Phase voltage regulators you have the better/stable the power to the CPU will be?

But i'll probably sell my existing mobo/cpu/ram when my 770T gets returned from Gigabyte.

That might not be necessary, the Gigabyte model has a solid 8+2 PWM design.

Originally Posted by _dangtx_

from the above we should expect some 7 series mobo clocking fun too? :)

Yep, that's whole idea behind the article

[Zero82z]

Originally Posted by jcmaz

So the more Phase voltage regulators you have the better/stable the power to the CPU will be?

That's one part of it. The other is that more phases distributes the load over a greater number of components, which allows the PWM circuitry to deliver more power without failing.

[BobbyLou]

Originally Posted by sswilson

To follow up on my previous question about being able to clock individual cores.... that now appears to be possible using the ASUS OC software (turbo core or whatever they call it).

This in turn brings up an interesting thought.... if it's the overall heat of the individual cores causing stability to crap out under heavy OC load... wonder if just clocking the "outer" cores a bit higher would allow for an extra 100 Mhz on those cores.... not a big deal for day to day operations, but might be something to look into when benchmarking.

One thing I can say for sure is that NB OC is crucial on these chips for day to day operations. The difference in "snappiness" of the OS between default 2000 NB and a 2600 NB is night and day.

really? I dont notice anything.

[_dangtx_]

was it increase nb for more bandwith or something? memory fails me atm.

in heavier tasks you may probably notice it