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Overclocking the Phenom II X6 1090T from 3.20GHz to 4.02GHz greatly improved performance when testing with Microsoft Excel and allowed the 1090T to deliver similar performance to the Core i7 930 processor. While this is not a great accomplishment in itself, as the Core i7 930 is operating at its default frequency of 2.80GHz, it is nonetheless a sizable performance increase.
Decent performance gains were also seen when testing with Far Cry 2, though the boost received by the overclock was not enough to help the Phenom II X6 1090T overtake the Core i7 750 processor in this game.
HandBrake was one of the best applications that fully utilized all six-cores and when overclocking the Phenom II X6 1090T all the way to 4.02GHz we saw tremendous performance gains. Not only was performance boosted by 22%, but the 1090T was now almost on par with the significantly more expensive Core i7 980 XE which has twice as many threads at its disposal. |
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Nick |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 03:19 AM
Great stuff I am just going over the review now but I skipped to the overclocking because I couldnt wait and damn those are some nice results. |
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Vaughn |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 05:07 AM
Few errors with labels in the graphs. i5-750 has 2.66 Ghz default clockspeed not 2.8. And a few times you spoke about the i7-930 as having a 2.66ghz clock speed when its 2.8ghz. Other wise great write up. |
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Busta9 |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 05:54 AM
Thanks for the honest review. I have to say these six core processors are a little disappointing really. |
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Rusty |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 06:00 AM
Time for me to upgrade to some hexa-core action. The 1055T is the processor for me and thank you for all the hard work. |
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Steve Posts: 80 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 06:43 AM
Thanks for the corrections Vaughn. “Copy and Replace All” gets me into trouble all the time. Also thanks for all the feedback so far guys. |
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Calle2003 Posts: 16 Joined: 2010-04-27 |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 11:17 AM
Press release from AMD: "ASUS has started to distribute a new BIOS, 0602 – this actually provides degraded performance as well as issues with Turbo core. Please encourage press to use the 0505 BIOS that can be found on the FTP." Source: http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/11911-amd-ger-hardvarusajter-huvudbry (use google translate for all except the quote). BTW. What happened to my previous account and previous comments like for the excellent article Clock for Clock: Core i5, Core i7, Core 2 Quad and Phenom II X4 Performance. Database crash? |
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Razor |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 11:29 AM
Nice work. So pretty much these are only good if you require more than 4 threads which makes sense as you said. Not sure when we will see games that require that many threads to this is really only useful for those working with multimedia stuff. |
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Steve Posts: 80 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 11:33 AM
Posted by Calle2003 on 04/27/2010 12:17 PM
We tested with the original 0505 BIOS as this was all that was available at the time. That said I upgraded to the 0602 today and ran all the tests again. I did not notice any performance drops. As for your second question when did you create the account? A few months ago we upgraded the website and removed the old forums. |
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Skooda |
Posted on: 04/27/2010 11:52 PM
They are pretty good value really. Think its time for me to upgrade  |
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Calle2003 Posts: 16 Joined: 2010-04-27 |
Posted on: 04/28/2010 12:05 AM
Posted by Steve on 04/27/2010 12:33 PM
1. Seems like it's very hard to reproduce what AMD are stating, like the cold bug in Barcelona. 2. I created the account September or October 2009, I re-registered yesterday, so no worries, even though it would be nice to read the older posts. Shouldn't you preferably backup the database before upgrading the forum?  Some other thoughts: I use Firefox as my main browser, but the <- Reply -> Quote doesn't work in FF but I noticed it works in IE 8. To enter a code for every post in a forum is something new for me, but it's better than every post going through an admin before it shows up on the forum (like on bit-tech), I would prefer no code entries though and manual administration of the forum, just like all the Swedish forums. Have you been a victim of forum spammers on LH? Despite the small critism I still regard LH as one of my top hardware-sites, your reviews are something extra esp. the Clock for Clock: Core i5, Core i7, Core 2 Quad and Phenom II X4 Performance article. You could add the Phenom II X6 and Core i7 980X to the comparision, it would be a nice update.  Regards, Calle2003 from Sweden |
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Steve Posts: 80 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 04/28/2010 12:54 AM
Unfortunately we moved from the old review database system and forums to a completely new system that could only transfer the old reviews. The forums as such are gone, users can now only comment on the reviews so it was impossible to migrate the data. Thank you for reporting the reply bug, we are fixing a few other things at the moment as well. Also I will certainly update the clock-for-clock article very soon with these new processors. |
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tiger |
Posted on: 04/28/2010 03:14 PM
More and more cores, but no real gain. It's kind of disappointing to see the hardware skyrocketing with the software lagging sooo behind. I hope we'll get to see applications and games that really take advantage of multicore processors. Thanks for the nice review! |
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Garvey |
Posted on: 05/08/2010 09:55 AM
The results were a little disappointing but I am still keen to own one |
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Homey |
Posted on: 07/29/2010 04:34 AM
I don't think Excel is a good bench mark to use on any processor comparison. How many people in the world really have any spreadsheets that take any real time to compute even on a slow single core processor? I'm thinking a few thousand people on the entire planet! Handbrake, on the other hand, is much more indicative of a real world work load. The thing to take from this review is that you really should make sure that the software you run will take advantage of 6 cores before you drop the money on one of these processors, although the 1055t is priced at a point that it is probably the processor to buy if you are building a new AMD system (or upgrading an old one). |
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sniper444 |
Posted on: 08/04/2010 12:19 PM
You know what they say about assumptions right? Why would you think only few thousand people on the entire planet use complex Excel spread sheets? That is almost the most absurd thing I have ever read, where do you work exactly? I work for a large corporation and we have hundreds of massive Excel spread sheets that we are using on a daily basis. Not only do these processor make compiling complex spread sheets much faster they make using them much easier and smoother as well. Anyone that uses Excel to plot charts and things of that nature which is a large percentage of Excel users will know that systems lacking power will be choppy when trying to scroll through the data. Anyway I just think saying that Excel should not be used as a bench mark is crazy as many more readers are likely to use it when compared to software such as Handbrake. Though again that is an assumption and I do believe that Handbrake is just as valid for benchmarking as Excel anyway. |