Fastest CPU To Date

hello there

i was wondering as im due for an upgrade what is to this date the fastest cpu available for gaming enthusiasts

i want maximum power with no concern for cost..

i would prefer to know which AMD processor is the fastest in their range but if the intels have a considerable lead i may choose to switch....

been seing a lot of opteron cores ? what are they. i have been told they have 24 cores ? what is this? am i able to game with this processor.

any information would be useful

thanks in advance for the help that i know i will get

Unfortunately, if you are really looking for maximum gaming power, you are not only looking at an Intel platform, but probably also nVidia SLI.

Since almost no one really needs that, or wants the power consumption, heat, and noise that comes along with it . . . and since you prefer AMD . . . you might not be concerned about stepping down a bit in "power".

I'm sure someone who does AMD will stop by to help you further.

Intel Skulltrail?

If you want AMD, I am going to assume ATI aswell? You will want the Phenom X4 965 (for overclocking 955), for none 64 bit applications.... If you want 6 cores, I'd go with the 1090T phenom x6... the benchmarks and performance by AMD 6 cores are.... appalling to say the least. if I was buying, and didn't care for price I'd get....

1090T
Asetek 570LX Liquid Cooling system
GigaByte GA-890FXA-UD5 AMD 890FX
16 gigs of whatever ram you see fit.
ATI Radeon HD 5970 4GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card
SilverStone SST-ST1500, 1,500 watts (you may want more...)
80 GB Intel X25-M, plus a SATA III HDD...
your choice on the rest, if you really don't have a real budget (I mean constraints) go intel, with ATI graphics... but wait for the 68xx or higher to come out.
EDIT: I dunno anything about mobos that have several CPUs on it so this isn't THE best, but it'd run just about anything you can throw at it.... also, will you be building this or a company?

Step 1 - Decide which aspects of performance are important to you

Step 2 - Understand that gaming performance is more driven by GPU than it is CPU, so don't cut yourself short on a graphics card to spend more on a processor

Step 3 - Check the charts and benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] s,112.html



As long as you're clear on what it is you wish to achieve, then it's simply a matter of choosing the winner of the appropriate category.

the IBM 5100 is a much economic choice

Yeap, but I always dream of having one of those computers that they had back in the 40s,
but then I need to buy a new house for one of those

for serious gaming the evga sr-2 with 2 hexacore xeons clocked to 4 ghz

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819117228

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wicked.. and you are telling the truth.
but total overkill in the real-world..
if I was Richie Rich, this is what I build to take over the world.
like pink and the brain..

actually the xeon 5,6,7 series ar the only ones that can be used in multi socket configurations

IBM release Z196 5.2ghz processor – fastest single CPU in world
http://www.kitguru.net/components/ [...] m_term=CPU

Yep - that's intel's high end server socket. That CPU is really made for 4-8 socket systems, not home use.

1567 is nehalem-EX, "No 1 man should have all that power"

right so i wanted to ask do you reckon that i could go and put 2 Cpu's (980x) on a single motheboard.

would that be the best performer in the gaming range ?
within reason.

as i would really like to get the server cpu's i dont think i would ever need 32 cores.

i am an enthusiast but would rather not spend money on somethign i will never use.

thanks for all the responses guys.

the sr 2 and xeons would be the only option the xeon 5680 is the equivalent of the i7 980 x but can be used in multi cpu formats

Honestly guys, I think this is getting out of topic , the asker, i think basically asked for a good gaming CPU and that's all, not some crazy server chip

What he's really asking for is an answer like corei7-930, not Xeon, or Opteron

lol I said it first(core i7 980x), he didn't want a million dollar CPU(lol ok, a little of a lie =p)... Just the best CPU for gaming, I doubt anyone but EA and google and other giants can even afford the whole computer, let alone use it? I always have wondered what the specs of googles mainframe? =p

^^ I think google has thousands of those mainframes

To answer your title question, the fastest CPU to date probably is the IBM POWER7. The top POWER7 is an 8-core, 32-thread CPU with 32 MB of L3 cache and a 4.00 GHz top clock speed. It has a turbo mode like Intel's Turbo Boost or AMD's Turbo CORE; the base clock speed is 3.55 GHz. However, the POWER7 is not an x86 or x86_64 CPU, so it won't run Windows or Windows-only games.

The fastest Windows gaming CPU is the Core i7 980X. Most games use 2-4 cores and thus run best on triple-core or quad-core CPUs. The Westmere-based chips are faster than the Phenom IIs clock-for-clock by a small margin, and thus the i7 980X is a little faster at gaming than the Phenom II X4 965BE and X6 1090T.

The Opterons you are talking about are the 6100-series Magny-Cours Opterons. These are 8 and 12-core server CPUs for two to four-socket servers clocked in the 1.8-2.4 GHz range. The "24 cores" comes from people putting two of the 12-core models in a dual-socket motherboard. You could get up to a 48-core server using four of the 12-core units in a quad-socket motherboard. These all would be beaten in gaming by just about every low-midrange and better desktop CPU. Games don't usually have more than three or four threads and most of the cores on the Magny-Cours would sit idle. But the low clock speed of the cores that are running would make them quite a bit slower than the desktop CPUs clocked nearly twice as high. You could certainly go play games on a Magny-Cours system, but the results would absolutely be nothing to brag about. The only reasons a typical desktop enthusiast would really want one of those systems is if they did a lot of video encoding or ran a distributed computing project. Then the large number of cores from a multi-socket Magny-Cours system would more than make up for the low clock speed and the system would absolutely fly through those tasks compared to desktop CPUs. Or, you could just want something highly unusual to bring to your LAN party, and a quad-processor unit with 32 or 48 cores would certainly fit the bill.

to MU_Engineer...
whoot, there it iz.........
your answer is the mother of all answer's on this thread..
love the knowledge you dropped bro.

I know, duh??? they serve like a billion people a day??