AMD Phenom II X6 1035T versus Core i7-860 (2.8 GHz

The Core i7 860 will be quite a bit faster...

However, why don't you save yourself $100 & just get the Core i5 750 which has similar gaming performance?

the phenom x6 will be more future proof and more efficient as 6 physical cores are better then hyperthreading, and for gaming it is more the capable of running any game at maximum settings and yes sometimes it is slower than core i5 in games but future games (and some current) uses 6 and 8 core like gta4 and resident evil 5, so it will be better in future than core i5 and will be easy to upgrade without changing the motherboard.

Since the 1035T should be considerably cheaper when released, if you actually mean the 1035t, than definitely get that if you plan to overclock. If not, then the 1055T is still cheaper, and will give you the performance you need, especially if you plan to overclock. The Phenom II X4 955 is even cheaper again, and it will work for your uses just fine at a higher starting clock, but two less cores.

Unless you are doing some professional applications that benefit heavily from Intel's architecture or are gaming with more than two GPUs, which I strongly advise against anyway, there really is no reason to go with an Intel setup for the money. (i5 750 user here)

Oh, I didn't know. I guess he was talking about an OEM machine, in which case the 860 would be better since the 1035T needs some overclocking to really do its best in gaming.

Good catch WR2, I never thought of that. The 1035T was never meant to compete with the i7 860.

hey, thanks all for your helpful replys

I am looking at 3 from pc world:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/dell [...] 8-pdt.html

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/pack [...] 1-pdt.html (the one in the shop has the 5770)

and also a dell xps 8100 which is on clearence (not on web only in shop) @ £849 i7-860 1 TB

I dont plan to overclock..

Aye, thanks AMW, nice rig good components too,

error in my above for the I power , it has the 5850 card..not 5770

5850 and not the GT 330? Hmmmmm

I would still go for the one I listed as the GTX 460 isn't much slower than the 5850, but the one I listed uses much better components and factory overclocks everything.