Help guys!!! Phenom x6 1100T vs 2500K

[nilgtx260]

yes Asansol WB, will be under Rashi Kolkata & moreover I have been seeing how much XFX gpu sale rate is reduced in Kolkata, specially high end XFX gpu is now rare whereas MSI ASUS Sapphire are being sell in Kolkata more in increasing rate.

 

[Skud]

Probably people have enough of Rashi.

 

[desiibond]

yes Asansol WB, will be under Rashi Kolkata & moreover I have been seeing how much XFX gpu sale rate is reduced in Kolkata, specially high end XFX gpu is now rare whereas MSI ASUS Sapphire are being sell in Kolkata more in increasing rate.

MSI's Twin Frozr series is selling really well and me too would suggest it over XFX. Sapphire HD6950 Toxic edition. These two are factory overclocked and Sapphire's is the fastest HD6950 right now but IMO MSI's has just a bit more OC room, thanks to superior cooling.

 

[avichandana20000]

@ TENIDA according to TOM'S HARDWARE Phenom II X4 Black Edition 980, 975

comes before 1100T BE, 1090T BE, 1075T

how?

 

[harryneopotter]

because of core clocks(frequency of mhz) of Phenom 980/975 is more than 1100T. And in most of the games, the two extra cores of 1100T are not utilized.

 

[Tech_Wiz]

yep. Most games use 2 to 4 Cores and 975 BE & 980 BE Clock Frequencies are higher than their Hex-Core Big Brothers. Even a 955 BE OCed to 3.6 Beats the Stock Hex Cores for same reason.

 

[avichandana20000]

a bit more explanation will make me obliged.

 

[harryneopotter]

its simple :

Games benefit more from Clock speeds (Ghz) then the number of cores.

X4 980 is 3.7 Ghz while X6 1100T is 3.3 Ghz. Now no game uses more than 4 cores at the moment ( >90% games use only 2-3 cores at max). So for the games, Phenom II X6 1100T is just a quadcore with 3.3 Ghz ( as they cant use the extra two cores at all).
Now between two quad cores of 3.3 Ghz (1100T) and 3.7 Ghz (X4 980 BE), obviously the latter will perform better.

Hope that helped.

 

[Skud]

MSI's Twin Frozr series is selling really well and me too would suggest it over XFX. Sapphire HD6950 Toxic edition. These two are factory overclocked and Sapphire's is the fastest HD6950 right now but IMO MSI's has just a bit more OC room, thanks to superior cooling.

Plus runs cooler. On the plus point of the Sapphire card, it has the dual BIOS switch and also 2 BIOSes actually, the 2nd one unlocks the card with 1536 shaders in some cards (check Kitguru). Also it has a 8-pin and 6-pin PCI-e connector which makes slapping a 6970 BIOS on it a bit easier and trouble-free in the long run.

 

[MegaMind]

On the plus point of the Sapphire card, it has the dual BIOS switch and also 2 BIOSes actually, the 2nd one unlocks the card with 1536 shaders in some cards (check Kitguru).

Same in the case of Twin frozer III/OC...

 

[nilgtx260]

of course we would love to have Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic but is available in WB & what is the expected price ?

 

[Skud]

I guess no. It's a newer card, may not be available in India yet.

 

[avichandana20000]

@harryneopotter
Thanks got it now.

A)1100t 3.3 Ghz(6 cores with four usable)
B)980be 3.7 Ghz(four cores with all usable)

hence B>A

So any proccy (normal or overclocked) with higher frequency than 6 core lower frequency wins.

But 6 core all usable(if) is having higher frquency(overclocked) than it will beat all other AMDs. Right?

 

[Skud]

The day games start using 6 or more cores, the X6 would be faster. Wait for another 1-2 years.

 

[avichandana20000]

by that time BULLDOZER or some STEAMROLLERmay open up its pandora box.

 

[coderunknown]

@ TENIDA according to TOM'S HARDWARE Phenom II X4 Black Edition 980, 975

comes before 1100T BE, 1090T BE, 1075T

how?

a bit more explanation will make me obliged.

AMD Core Turbo isn't efficient enough. neither is the turbo clock high enough nor can it match the aggressive turbo found on Intel processors. so high clocked processor (from AMD) wins the race in the gaming arena compared to 6-core ones.