I got a amd Phenom II would it be worth to upgrade

[mattman83us]

I built a pc, and i bought a am3+ mobo with the bulldozer in mind. Thought about buying it when it came out. but is it a big improvement over my current cpu?

 

[casualbuilder]

Sorry if im trolling, i just figured we were pretty much off the OP anyways.

 

[mattman83us]

hehe, its cool. just discussing things now. hehe

 

[mattman83us]

i bought a cooler master hyper 922 evo just now. can't wait to get it, and install it. and try to oc my phenom some

 

[Herr_Koos]

i bought a cooler master hyper 922 evo just now. can't wait to get it, and install it. and try to oc my phenom some

Probably the right choice. Based on the bendmarks (sad to say), the X6 easy keeps up with Bulldozer and even beats it in some cases.

 

[Uther39]

If you manage to OC your 1100t to 4.0ghz it will stomp all over stock BullDozer.

 

[mattman83us]

well ive never oc'ed before, but i kind of want to try it.

 

[swifty_morgan]

maybe this was it after all............. ???

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20111031232639_AMD_Reiterates_Plans_to_Launch_Fusion_Trinity_APU_Very_Early_Next_Year.html

 

[mattman83us]

hmm. so trinity, is the next cpu?

 

[Herr_Koos]

Trinity is the next Fusion APU, i.e., CPU plus GPU on a single piece of silicon.

 

[mattman83us]

oh, i dont like thoses to much, id prefer to have a descrite gpu

 

[casualbuilder]

for moderate to heavy gaming, its better to have a seperate gpu, but for people who do light to moderate gaming, or video editing, its a great setup. Its cost effective, very energy efficient, and keeps your system very compact. A lot of people love that.

Im planning to get this setup for my 5th computer for the lan group i head at my house on saturday. We all get together to play SC2 and LoL. Im hoping that this will smoke my old pc as it is running a Phenom II 555BE (only 2 cores at 3.7GHz) and an old Sapphire 4650. After a slight OC, im hoping to run this FM1 setup at 3.2GHz-3.4GHz as a quad core, and with the 6550 integrated graphics, i think it will perform to any demands the games we play have.

 

[mattman83us]

😀 sounds like a good plan.

 

[swifty_morgan]

agree with 2 up ........ bet me to it. It'll make low and "midrange" machines relatively obsolete. My take on this is........ give me a whopping fast multi-core/thread processor in it's own socket and give me a gpu in it's own socket that I can swap out for the next best thing when I can upgrade. That would allow me to install my own cooling solutions and it would also allow for smaller and very needed - upgraded motherboard designs.

 

[Herr_Koos]

Agreed, the APU is a very attractive option for the mid-range casual gamer. Besides, the integrated GPU will keep getting more powerful as the technology improves.

The current Llano APU is still based on the Deneb (Phenom II) CPU design. Trinity will be the first APU that uses Bulldozer as the CPU. Allthough, based on the benchmarks, I'm not sure how exciting this is.

 

[casualbuilder]

yeah, that sole fact that the BD architecture is being used almost frightens me. For gamers, this is not an ideal chipset, and if they start making APU's with a server based design for their cpu, it will imo, totally negate any progress for this technology for the budget pc gamer.

 

[casualbuilder]

What is the smallest PSU you would put in this sytem, since total power consumption i think is around 225W for an APU setup.

 

[mattman83us]

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