AMD vs. Intel

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 01 Apr 2010, 09:39

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nehale ... 10033.html

Intel's new Xeon...

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 05 Apr 2010, 21:36

This is going to be my new board:

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_ ... ld_first/1

Pure awesomeness!

Hman · Post by **Hman** » 06 Apr 2010, 18:10

Xiphan wrote:If I do have any gripes (though I could be doing this wrong) it's that you can't do custom settings for different games. With my older nVidia card I could choose custom settings like cranking AA and AF for certain (older) games that would only come into effect when that game ran or leave it on application controlled if I didn't want it to affect games that are a bit more demanding. With the ATI control panel I haven't been able to figure out how to do this yet?

Indeed you are, here's how:

Set everything the way you want it for a specific game, apply the settings then click on "Options" at the top-right corner of the window. Then point to "Profiles" then "Profile Manager". From there you can save the profile and set activation options.

Enjoy!

Puento · Post by **Puento** » 12 Apr 2010, 19:28

Intel is on FIRE !!!! Intel core i7 980X EE . . . .

6 cores . . . .
12 threads . . . .

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 12 Apr 2010, 19:40

You're a bit behind.

But yeah, awesome CPU... if one could actually afford it.

R3D · Post by **R3D** » 12 Apr 2010, 22:04

Unless you do HUGE amounts of rendering the 980 is worthless to you. even a 975 is overkill.

AT most a 950. even then you are pushing it. value wise. 920's are the sweet spot for gaming and value. it even OC's well. 4.2ghz easily on AIR and we ran my mates one on 5.2ghz this weekend under LN2 so its a powerful chip.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 12 Apr 2010, 22:17

Yeah, it's going to take a while for Intel to beat the 920.

Xiphan · Post by **Xiphan** » 13 Apr 2010, 07:30

Crosshair IV Formula with a 890FX chipset for me at the end of the month. And then possibly trading up my AMD 550 for a new Hexa-Core Thuban CPU if it cannot be unlocked.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 13 Apr 2010, 10:57

I LOVE the black & red design of the new RoG boards.

Xiphan · Post by **Xiphan** » 13 Apr 2010, 18:57

Mystical_Titan wrote:I LOVE the black & red design of the new RoG boards.

I know, they look awesome, I can't fracking wait!

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 13 Apr 2010, 19:24

My new PC is going to be all red and black...

Post by **KALSTER** » 13 Apr 2010, 20:05

*insert joke using the words "black and blue"*

ADT · Post by **ADT** » 14 Apr 2010, 09:24

Mystical_Titan wrote:My new PC is going to be all red and black...

Nice choice of colour

, my case is almost just those colours, except for the Blue light show from my msi mobo

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 14 Apr 2010, 18:46

So paint it red!

Xiphan · Post by **Xiphan** » 15 Apr 2010, 14:51

And to think I almost sold my XfX 5870 (that is mostly red and black) to try and get a blue Vapor-X model.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 15 Apr 2010, 15:27

He, he... if I was going for a blue PC, I would have gone for the Gigabyte X58-UD7 board and Kingston RAM.

Xiphan · Post by **Xiphan** » 26 Apr 2010, 18:47

Two more days until Thuban and the 890FX hit the market!

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 02 May 2010, 21:07

I see our local online PC shop is advertising the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T,as well as the 980XE.

http://www.nanodog.org/index.php?page=s ... &Itemid=98

Post by **KillerByte** » 03 May 2010, 15:03

Just to let you all know, I spoke to the AMD representative in South Africa.

Only about 400 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE chips are in the country while there seems to be about 600 of the 1050T available.

The 1090T will retail for R3 000 while the 1050T will retail for R2 000

We have a review of the 1090T BE in the June issue and a review of the 1050T in the July issue.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 03 May 2010, 17:08

Thanks for the heads-up!

R3D · Post by **R3D** » 03 May 2010, 19:47

KillerByte wrote:Just to let you all know, I spoke to the AMD representative in South Africa.

Only about 400 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE chips are in the country while there seems to be about 600 of the 1050T available.

The 1090T will retail for R3 000 while the 1050T will retail for R2 000

We have a review of the 1090T BE in the June issue and a review of the 1050T in the July issue.

AT that price its directly in competition with the i7 920. Now if you tally up the specs the 1090 falls a little short in all areas except for the logical core count. But with turbo and HT on the 920 it more than makes up for it.

After looking at the synthetic benches of both for a while now on XS and Hwbot i have come to the conclusion that the 1090 is a "fanboy" CPU. Im not bias in any way im just saying that if you intend to OC it you will have to use LN2 every single time where as with the 920 DICE is sufficient to get newer batches to 5.2ghz at which point the 920 blows the 1090 out of the water in 2D. 3D wise the 1090 does not have the lead you would expect from a 6 core CPU. It barely breaks 10k CPU score in 06 and 30k in Vantage at well over 6ghz.

On air its much of the same thing.

BTW one of my mates has a sample of an 1090T and a ASUS CH4 so i will have figures from him soon.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 04 May 2010, 08:56

I just can't see AMD performance surpassing the i7 range anytime soon.

Post by **KALSTER** » 04 May 2010, 09:08

Mystical_Titan wrote:I just can't see AMD performance surpassing the i7 range anytime soon.

We'll see with Bulldozer and Bobcat.

Post by **KillerByte** » 04 May 2010, 09:13

there is point to be made with the X6... you are getting a 6 core processor for a R3000 rather than Intel's R10k for the 980X.

Yes its not as powerful but at R3k its not a bad chip

ADT · Post by **ADT** » 04 May 2010, 09:22

Mystical_Titan wrote:I just can't see AMD performance surpassing the i7 range anytime soon.

Don't hate

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