AMD phenom II X6 hexacore vs Intel i7 quad HT

[WhiteFireDragon]

well i decided to jump on it and bought one of these. great, now i have to learn how to OC these things. i don't know squat about AMD, haven't used one ever since conroe came out. will be crunching with one of these soon.

do these AMD boards support SLI, or at least can i use two nvidia cards to crunch for GPUgrid as well? if so, can anyone recommend the lowest costing board that is mATX, support multi GPU's, and able to mildly OC these new hexacores?

[Blauhung]

on the intel side, the Gigabyte uATX UD2 is a great clocker for $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128405

[lkiller123]

well i decided to jump on it and bought one of these. great, now i have to learn how to OC these things. i don't know squat about AMD, haven't used one ever since conroe came out. will be crunching with one of these soon.

do these AMD boards support SLI, or at least can i use two nvidia cards to crunch for GPUgrid as well? if so, can anyone recommend the lowest costing board that is mATX, support multi GPU's, and able to mildly OC these new hexacores?

No, I don't think AMD board can be able to support SLI without hacking it. But AFAIK GPUGrid will be able to recognize. If you really want to enable SLI on those things, you can check this out; I don't know if this works or not, though

By the way, tell us about the 1055T when you got it on the grid. It would be a tie breaker for me if it is able to clock right (4-4.2GHz).

[WhiteFireDragon]

well perhaps i don't need to connect in SLI by using the bridge, but i'd like to use at least 2 video cards on the board to crunch two WU for GPUgrid. is multi nvidia GPU possible without being in SLI configuration?

i'll surely post PPD results no this hexacore when i get it. my only worry is the power consumption when OC'ed.

[D_A]

Possibly. You can get a system with a single vid card but six Telsa cards in it if you don't mind taking on the national debt. No SLi but lots of GPUs.

[lkiller123]

well perhaps i don't need to connect in SLI by using the bridge, but i'd like to use at least 2 video cards on the board to crunch two WU for GPUgrid. is multi nvidia GPU possible without being in SLI configuration?

i'll surely post PPD results no this hexacore when i get it. my only worry is the power consumption when OC'ed.

No, you will not need a SLI bridge for GPUGrid to recognize the video cards. I've seen in the other reviews that the Thuban does not drain as much power as i7s. I'm not really sure, but you can always check reviews from the other sites.

[SocketMan]

MSI NF750 G65 has SLI (2x8).
Around 100$,single chip design,8200 IGP.
MS-7578 model number.

[lkiller123]

Any verdicts on the X6?

[INFRNL]

I would like to see how these do on wcg myself. too bad we missed out on the killer td deal

[Utnorris]

I have my 1055T coming in tomorrow to go into my WHS box which will start crunching for WCG. I figure I won't be streaming often, so I might as well put the cycles to good use. I doubt I will overclock it, but who knows. For $125 I couldn't pass on the upgrade from my Triple core.

[jcool]

The problem with AMD and SLI is simple.. all SLI capable boards for AM2/AM3 use NV chipsets, and they basically all suck. They run hot, don't overclock as well as AMD or Intel ones and are a bug-ridden PITA to deal with. I once had a 780a (M3N78-HT) and let me tell you this: Never again

Only decent way to go SLI these days is with an x58.

[Tom128]

I am curious how well these X6's can do in performance/watt. AMD is always far too conservative with their voltages, and these new chips seem to be even more power efficient than the Deneb cores which were already capable of getting huge gains (or loss?) in power savings by undervolting them. My 955BE (C2 stepping) has a stock vCore of 1.35v and I can run it at 1.1875v at stock speeds which is a pretty huge drop in power consumption under full load. If these 6-cores could run into the 3Ghz territory with similar undervolting they could generate a pretty huge amount of points for little wattage.

[soya_crack]

I am in for now. I am gonna oc it later. I am new to AMD overclocking, so we will see...

[WhiteFireDragon]

ah first person to crunch with these hexacores. that's great. soya, post EVERYTHING you can about it crunching, mainly power consumptions, overclocks, points, etc.. i'll be getting mine this monday and i'll also join the results

[soya_crack]

Yeah, from my oberservations right now. I think you can compare it pretty much with my old Q6600 Clock-to-Clock wise. It just got 2 more cores.

[=[PULSAR]=]

WFD where do you stand right now with your X6?

[WhiteFireDragon]

lol nowhere, because the package hasn't came yet. i'll get it this monday and plug it in as soon as i can. i'll let it start crunching first while i learn how to OC amd chips

[WhiteFireDragon]

instead of learning to OC it when i get it, it'll probably be wise to learn the basic of it first and when i get this chip on monday, i can apply it to OCing. i skimmed some of the n00b guides, and a few questions came to mind. running the HT frequency and NB frequency in sync is beneficial, but how important is it for real world applications? will it actually increase the computational power? or will it be almost useless sort of like tweaking the memory and triple channel on the i7? and i'm assuming AMD platform is not limited to 1.65v memory only right? i can use older ddr3 2.0v memory?

[lkiller123]

The problem with AMD and SLI is simple.. all SLI capable boards for AM2/AM3 use NV chipsets, and they basically all suck. They run hot, don't overclock as well as AMD or Intel ones and are a bug-ridden PITA to deal with. I once had a 780a (M3N78-HT) and let me tell you this: Never again

Only decent way to go SLI these days is with an x58.

I thought you can mod/hack it into using SLI I remember giving WFD a link earlier to a guide for hacking any chipset into recognizing SLI. I've never tried it, though.

lol nowhere, because the package hasn't came yet. i'll get it this monday and plug it in as soon as i can. i'll let it start crunching first while i learn how to OC amd chips

Is it the 1055T?

[Oc-Ghost]

instead of learning to OC it when i get it, it'll probably be wise to learn the basic of it first and when i get this chip on monday, i can apply it to OCing. i skimmed some of the n00b guides, and a few questions came to mind. running the HT frequency and NB frequency in sync is beneficial, but how important is it for real world applications? will it actually increase the computational power? or will it be almost useless sort of like tweaking the memory and triple channel on the i7? and i'm assuming AMD platform is not limited to 1.65v memory only right? i can use older ddr3 2.0v memory?

HT & NB in sync? No, not that important. HT at 2-2.2GHz is more than enough, as higher HT has almost no gain.
NB actually affects performance, so as high as possible normally 2.5-2.9GHz.

Cheers

[PaganII]

This 1090T ran 100% on all cores overnight (still running) for the XtremeSystems team and is only at 48C. Stock speeds, volts and cooler. 3210@1.236v.

[xVeinx]

It would be interesting to see the performance on windows and linux. My bet is that AMD will outperform the 920 slightly in linux while the opposite will be the case in windows.

[=[PULSAR]=]

This 1090T ran 100% on all cores overnight (still running) for the XtremeSystems team and is only at 48C. Stock speeds, volts and cooler. 3210@1.236v.

How many points have you knocked out already?

[PaganII]

Waiting validation

[sierra_bound]

Do you recall the numbers you got from the BOINC benchmark? The benchmark runs automatically when you first install BOINC.