AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

[vaughan]

OK so has anybody got one yet?
What motherboard etc etc are you using?

I read that the choice is really between the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula and the Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7.

[NeoGen]

I believe Jason1478963 has one... he posted on my "dream NAS" thread

http://amdusers.com/forum/showthread...ilt-my-own-NAS

[Jason1478963]

I have one of the X6 chips and was hoping it would work in my k9a2 platinum originally. I went with the MSI FXA890-GD70 and it seems like a nice board. I have a few other MSI boards that I liked so I stuck with MSI. I'm a little unhappy they didn't get the support for the K9a2 Platinum yet. I hear they are working on it and it's in beta, but should be out soon. We have four of these boards crunching with various quad cores and would like to update them in the future. I know the chipset isn't as good in the K9a2 Platinum, but how much does it matter for crunching? I believe lots of motherboards support this chip now going back to the AM2+ stuff. You just have to check your many AMD boards you have crunching to see how many you can upgrade ;)

[shotgunner101]

The phenom 2 x6 is only 300$ at newegg. It is going to be a part of my future desktop.

[NeoGen]

The phenom 2 x6 is only 300$ at newegg. It is going to be a part of my future desktop.

For around that same value you can also get a ATI Radeon HD 5850, it's not the absolute top of the line, but it's one hardcore cruncher!

[shotgunner101]

I know dude its amazing. I have a future pc design set up for when I get the money lol. :P

[Jason1478963]

but the 5850 cant crunch at WCG yet

[Bender10]

Not running a 1090T yet...Got this one though...

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz Socket AM3 125W (115 degrees F w/stock fan)
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO mb
Corsair TX-750 power supply
Ucck...Win 7 64 bit
Radeon HD 5770
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower (3-120mm and 1-200mm fans)
All quietly runs at 240 watts...

[Jason1478963]

Sounds like a nice setup Bender10 Is that running crunching with gpu and cpu? I think mine is around 330 with it crunching on one 4850 and 3.6ghz for the CPU and the pumps and fans.

1090T
4gb DDR3 Corsair
MSI FXA890-GD70
BFG 1000
xp64 with ubuntu running in vbox... I think this should be the other way around
Radeon 4850
Koolance case with 7 80mm case fans and pump

[Bender10]

I started plotting this new confuser when the X6 came out. Took me a while.

But, I do as much crunching as 3 of my X2, with less power, and beats my AMD quad+dual gpu (G92) for output, also for less power....