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Phenom II X4 Or, X6?

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Cooly568

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I am going to buy new computer parts soon.

I was wondering, for a major multitasker, and heavy game player would a AMD Phenom II X4 or X6 be better for me?

All I am buying is a new processor, motherboard, and RAM

P.S. Please do not tell me 'GET A INTEL,GET A INTEL.' My budget is only $320 and I want 16GB of RAM.

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Amram

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depends on just how heavily it will be loaded. Odds are the x4 will serve you well enough and you\'ll not find it coming up short. i never close excel, or firefox, and still do my gaming around them. I\'ve had dozens of spreadsheets open, some of them huge, and hundreds of tabs in firefox, plus gaming, and still not seen any significant impact, and its not often I show 50%+ on a fifth core or more.

If your going to be doing any video or image editing, or transcoding, then the hexacore will shine through and be well worth it, but I think the quadcore will probably be enough.

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I have the fx 8120 and 6100. The 8120 I cannot do much to it now because it has the stock fan, been saving up for a nice water cooling system. The 6100 has a good price point and enough room for oc, I currently have a profile set up to oc to 3.8 stable (stock fan once again) and currently the biggest constraining item on my computers are the hard drives, which I am saving up money and waiting for the price to drop further before getting a ssd. A buddy of mine is about to put one together (I am telling him what to buy and help him basically) and I am telling him to get the 4100 and help him oc it a little, but the great thing about the 4100 is the performance/price ratio and my personal favorite, 95W power.

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Amram

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I like to listen to videos, play minecraft(or ksp) and look on the KSP forums at the same time.

The X4 has a higher clock rate, but the X6 has more cores.

you should give this a read, I could elaborate, but pretty much all my points are also in this, so....

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-fx-8120-6100-4100_10.html#sect0

its the last page of a benchmarking review of the bulldozer CPU\'s(the FX series chips). Their point of view, FX\'s are a disappointment, and not worth the cost for little to no performance gain over the previous X4\'s and X6\'s. its been 6 months, so pricing has almost certainly changed, but if both have gotten cheaper, they still aren\'t worth the increased cost compared to an X4 or X6.

if you prefer to skim(you\'ll miss quite a bit), start with the second last paragraph.

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Amram

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well, Newegg doesn\'t have the 2.8Ghz X6 on site, so I can\'t offer upa same vender price comparison on those, BUT

N82E16819106012 X6 @ 2.7Ghz - $150

N82E16819103727 X4 @ 3.4Ghz - $120

the X4 there will outperform the X6 in tasks like KSP, EASILY outperform it. Nothing you have mentioned maybe doing has even hinted that you\'d need the other two cores at all. Cheaper, and faster, why grab an X6? At 2.8Ghz, the one you mentioned is faster than this one, probably a little more expensive(I lack a reference on hand at the moment), and will still be MUCH slower than the 3.4Ghz X4 in gaming.

note that there is little to any difference most of the time if its your graphics card that is holding you back....chain being only as strong as its weakest link and all that

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Amram

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Tigers a good site too, I use them when they have the lower price, or something Newegg doesn\'t that im after.

Yeah, the X4 is probably your best bet. More in game performance than the X6, and equal to the FX\'s, while cheaper than either of them.

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I have an X6 1065T (2.9GHz) and I am more than happy with it. I think its safe to say that GTA IV is the most demanding game I have to test my computer with, and the HD6770 GPU is the weakest link in that situation. But honestly, 4 cores is more than enough for most applications (or better because they tend to be faster).

It seems like something that is ahead of its time, since there are so few programs that can use even 3 cores.

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Yeah, I don\'t think anyone really needs more than 4 cores at any time unless they\'re going to be running a server or something from their PC.

By the time software creators start coding apps that can use more cores, processors will be more advanced anyway, and your beautiful hexacores and octocores will already be obsolete.

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well, Newegg doesn\'t have the 2.8Ghz X6 on site, so I can\'t offer upa same vender price comparison on those, BUT

N82E16819106012 X6 @ 2.7Ghz - $150

N82E16819103727 X4 @ 3.4Ghz - $120

the X4 there will outperform the X6 in tasks like KSP, EASILY outperform it. Nothing you have mentioned maybe doing has even hinted that you\'d need the other two cores at all. Cheaper, and faster, why grab an X6? At 2.8Ghz, the one you mentioned is faster than this one, probably a little more expensive(I lack a reference on hand at the moment), and will still be MUCH slower than the 3.4Ghz X4 in gaming.

note that there is little to any difference most of the time if its your graphics card that is holding you back....chain being only as strong as its weakest link and all that

I think the only reason you need 6 cores is for video and image editing.

My graphics card is a BEAST!

It is a Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 TI.

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No. I THOUGHT of buying one.

Oh okay then.

I think the only reason you need 6 cores is for video and image editing.

My graphics card is a BEAST!

It is a Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 TI.

Indeed you can play ultra on shogun 2 with that.

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