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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Pro Reviews

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bjorn3d‘s review Edit Like Unlike

While the new 6-core CPU's won't impress us as much as the Intel i7 980x (Extreme) when it comes to speed, it is clear that AMD is continuing on the path of delivering excellent performance at an affordable price. The AMD Phenom II X6 1055T can be found for about 220$ (Amazon) while the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T will set you back around $300 (Amazon) and it certainly is true that you will be able to build a complete computer system with monitor and everything for the same price as the i7 980x.

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Apr 27, 2010

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extremeoverclocking‘s review Edit Like Unlike

In heavily multi-threaded applications, the two extra cores in the AMD processors really make the difference. In lightly-threaded applications the winner jumps back and forth. However, for the enthusiast / tweaker, just knowing that you can adjust Turbo CORE settings to your liking I think gives AMD the slight edge. Games today really have become so video card dependent, whatever CPU power is required often plateaus around 3 cores or so.

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Apr 27, 2010

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pcstats‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Taking all this into consideration the bottom line is this - if you can afford the trappings of an 8-thread Intel Core i7 9-series computer system, that platform will generally offer the best performance over all (with caveats here and there for specific benchmarks). If you're on a tighter budget the 6-core AMD Phenom II X6 1090T built with an AMD 890FX motherboard will provide nearly the same level of performance with a large side of savings.

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May 01, 2010

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expertreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Far cheaper than Intel's first six-core effort, but it's still too expensive given its all-round performance.

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Apr 27, 2010

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ITreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

AMD has updated its Phenom II CPU range with two models that sport six cores and has added Turbo CORE. Although these CPUs are much cheaper than Intel's Core i7 980X they're still irrelevant to the man in the street so, yes, they are affordable but no, we do not currently recommend the upgrade.

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May 06, 2010

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ExtremeTech‘s review Edit Like Unlike

As is frequently the case, AMD and Intel are aiming at different markets, so figuring out which one you belong in is the most important step in deciding on your CPU. From a strict performance standpoint, Intel still comes out way ahead. But if price is a major factor for you, the Phenom II X6 1090T will be an excellent upgrade from whatever AM3 chip you may be using now. Just don't expect to be floored by fastness. The Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition is a workhorse CPU at a working person's price, and must be approached with expectations in line with that background. It's in no way a bad buy, but in Gulftown's wake it's unavoidably unexciting.

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Apr 27, 2010

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www.pcper.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Phenom II X6 1090T will likely stay as the top end desktop part for AMD for some time to come. For those that are avid gamers, then perhaps the Phenom II X2 955 BE would be a better option, as it performs quite similarly to the 1090T in games all the while costing almost 1/3 less. The Intel i5-530 is another cost effective option for gamers. But if a user requires the extra power that 6 cores can bring, then there is simply no competition at reasonable prices.

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Apr 27, 2010

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HEXUS‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Arriving as the company's fastest-ever desktop processor, the £240 Phenom II X6 1090T becomes an attractive choice for many an enthusiast. Ensuring that the hexa-core chips aren't only useful in heavily multi-threaded applications, the introduction of AMD's Turbo CORE technology ensures solid single-core performance. The 3.2GHz Phenom II X6 1090T, for example, is able to offer superior single-thread performance in certain scenarios when compared to the 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965.

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Apr 27, 2010

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TechSpot‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Phenom II X6 is an interesting proposition as it's meant to provide heavy multi-tasking performance on a budget. The Phenom II X6 1090T can be matched to the Core i7 930 processor as they are both priced around the $300 mark. Unfortunately for the Phenom, the Core i7 930 processor was faster in most of our real-world tests.

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Apr 27, 2010

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xbitlabs‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The official price of the new Phenom II X6 1090T is set at $300, while the junior Phenom II X6 1055T is priced at $200. This factor will undoubtedly guarantee the popularity of these processors. Especially, since our tests showed that six processor cores may be very helpful during work with video content, and that becomes an increasingly popular type of activity these days. However, there are other applications as well, where six Phenom II X6 cores may come in very handy.

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Apr 26, 2010

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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Compared to Intel's silly-money six-core processors, the Phenom II X6 1090T BE looks preposterously cheap. But the chip itself is only part of the reason why AMD-based PCs are such great value. Thanks to AMD's single-socket strategy on the desktop, you can drop the 1090T into a £50 board and do some serious coding on the cheap. As fantastic as the 1090T Black edition is, there's one chip that's even better value: the Phenom II X6 1055T. It's essentially the same chip running slightly slower for a lot less money. What both models share is a slight weediness in games. At last, an AMD Black Edition chip worthy of the name. But slightly overpriced.

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Sep 09, 2010

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HotHardware‘s review Edit Like Unlike

First things first. We really like the new AMD Phenom II X6 1090T processor. It may not be the undisputed performance champion in light of Intel's excellent offerings, but all things considered, the Phenom II X6 1090T is a heck of processor for under $300 and it's undeniably the fastest to ever come out of AMD. Our tests showed the 1090T performing in roughly the same neighborhood as the Core i7 870 and Core i7 975 depending on the application, but the Phenom II X6 1090T costs hundreds of dollars less than both. Turbo CORE worked as advertised and helped push the 1090T's performance ahead of AMD's previous flagship Phenom II X4 965 in some lightly-threaded workloads.

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Apr 27, 2010

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Tom's Hardware‘s review Edit Like Unlike

AMD’s hexa-core Phenom II X6 1090T is decidedly a productivity-oriented part designed to improve the performance of threaded apps. It extends the usefulness of Socket AM3 until Bulldozer emerges in 2011. As a result, your 790FX-based motherboard will do the job just fine - it’s probably not worth upgrading to 890FX at this point.

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Apr 27, 2010

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tweaktown‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Phenom II X6 1090T will hit the shelves at about $300. This is one third of the cost of the Intel Core i7-980X with the same amount of physical cores. However, in many of our tests the 1090T only performed a little better than the Core i5 750 which sells for $200 right now.

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Apr 27, 2010

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hardwarecanucks‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Frankly, AMD have done an ACE job with these new processors. The results really do speak for themselves. In applications that utilize more than four threads, the new Phenom II X6 is generally a phenomenal performer, leaving the Phenom II X4's in the dust and nearly always competitive with the mainstream Intel Core i5 & Core i7 LGA1156/LGA1366 processors.

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Apr 26, 2010

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computershopper‘s review Edit Like Unlike

This six-core CPU doesn’t match Intel’s Core i7-980X for raw speed, but at less than a third of the price, it’s a stellar choice for content creators on a budget.

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Apr, 2010

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bit-tech‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Despite being an astonishing £600 cheaper than the exorbitantly-priced Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, the X6 1090T BE still isn’t a very good buy. That’s because despite being clocked at a respectable 3.2GHz and having a useful auto-overclocking feature in Turbo Core, it’s based on a comparatively old architecture – K10, which is in reality only a tweaked version of the ancient K8 architecture dating way back to 2003.

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Apr 27, 2010

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benchmarkreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

After review of our test results, it's difficult to ignore how well the 3.2GHz six-core AMD Phenom-II X6-1090T has done in comparison to Intel counterparts. Equally impressive is how well the 3.4GHz quad-core AMD X4-965 kept up, and confirmed the power contained within AMD's Phenom-II architecture. The X6-1090T may not have always placed first in every benchmark we tested, but it occasionally offered unrivaled performance and generally finished at the top.

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Apr 26, 2010

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techPowerUp!‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Without any doubt, Phenom II X6 1090T is the best thing AMD can offer based on their current K10.5 architecture. It is my belief that it will be very hard to squeeze even more out of it before the new Bulldozer architecture comes out. Six phsical cores running cool at reasonable power consumption and on top of that clocked almost sky high. The only bad thing with Phenom II X4 1090T at the moment is its price tag.

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May 20, 2010

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hardwaresecrets‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The new Phenom II X6 1090T isn’t faster than Core i7 CPUs from Intel. In fact, it doesn’t compete with Core i7, as we are talking about a complete different price range. Therefore on the very high-end CPU market Intel is still the only game in town.

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Apr 26, 2010

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