Building new system - go with Core i7 or wait for amd x6

agree with xbeater... wait... its almost round the corner... i'd expect it to match i7's performance if not better it...

What parts are in the system you have now?

wow, you are in for a treat!

I would definitely wait until reviews and benchmarks come out before you make your final choice. IIRC, they should be out next week sometime, 26th I think.

well some dutch site I read on (tweakers.net) got their hands on the cpu, (3.2 ghz model), and they benchmarked it, no numbers though.

supposedly it was compared against the i7 960.

3dmark06 it did much better, as with other multi-threaded apps.
single threaded, or max 4 cores apps the intel obviously did better though.

best to wait indeed though.

but, would you not like to be able to say; "I have a six core computer"?

You can make several good and bad points to sway you either way. In my opinion this is sort of like "what is best, a dual core processor or a quad for gaming?". Except we are now talking about a quad vs a hexacore. The i7 beats it out in some benches and visa versa. I am reading that some users are hitting 4.3ghz with this chip with little effort so if this is the case I believe I would sway toward the AMD offering.

Again, there is good and bad points and someone else can pop on here and give you reasons to go the i7 route so ultimately I think this is a decision for you to make. I am going with the X6 1090T myself but mainly due to the fact that the motherboards that I have for both of my Q9550's have crappy chipsets that are saturated too easily with the bandwidth of the SATA ports and the USB ports when transferring large bits of data. This has annoyed me for about a year now and when I built my x4 620 system and copied data to it and saw how fast data transferred to and from that system it finalized my decision to sell everything off and upgrade once more.

I also now am more into video editing now more than gaming and thats another huge reason for me to upgrade to the X6 1090T. But you may be strictly a gamer and if thats the case there are more reasons to go the i7 route for you than for me. But if the over clocking people claim they are getting is real I have a hard time thinking the X6 1090T shouldn't be considered. Generally the higher the frequency, the better the video card will shine and a X6 hitting 4.3 should be able to open up any current video card and let it shine to be all it can be. It would be nice to see some benchmarks with the X6 1090T and the i7 930 with 1,2 and 3 video cards to see how well they scale vs each other. With them at stock speeds then at max OC potential, that would be interesting...

That was a very comprehensive reply. thanks for that. Well basically i upgrade after 3-4 years, and again plan to run the new configuration for atleast 3 years down the line. So if i7 is good gaming wise and 1090t is gud multithreading wise, then i would probably want a chip which provides me the best balance between gaming and multitasking. I read a lot of reviews and forums since yesterday, and am still confused in the end. Some say even gaming wise amd beats the i7 whereas some say 1090t couldn't even match the i7 930 in multitasking. Exactly dunno which ones better????

It's www.brightsideofnews.com

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Jenny, I'm thinking about the 1090T vs the i5/i7 myself. Do you know of any more gaming benchmarks at high resolutions and high quality presets? Maybe at similar clocks, too?

I already gave above !

About the only advantage over the Intel platform over AMD currently is the flexibility of crossfire/SLI on the same board. If AMD played that game, that would be yet another bragging point dissolved.

Dear oh dear.

AMD has some cool circuitry inside every chip they make. This little part of the chip allows it to sacrifice fps when it doesn't matter (ie, at anytime the fps totals are above 100), in order to boost fps when it does matter (ie, when games need to be boosted most around the 60fps area).

The evidence? You've already shown how Thuban falls behind at 200fps.

There is the evidence of AMD's plan. Make the cpu better at *real* and recent games - 20% faster in FC2 and BC2, not some ancient crap like UT3 which would run perfectly on a 5 year old laptop.

That isn't a good quote, it's garbage. For starters UT3 barely scales past 3 cores.

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/video/quadcore-p6.html

How exactly can you conclude that the 1090T is bottlenecking the 5870 when the game is only using 66% of the chips cores? You can't. Start using your brains people, that's what you were given it for.

Did I forget to mention that I have the X6 1090T and ASUS Crosshair IV mobo in my closet? I'm waiting on the ddr3 ram...