phenom 1090T x6 @ 60$ Worth it?

[storm-chaser]

$40 US is about $53 Canadian adding 2 cores for $7 seems academic.

In this case the 1090T is the way to go but generally speaking the 960T is most cost effective AM3 approach. You also can get lucky about 35% of the time and unlock two extra cores. Usually they are good to about 3.8Ghz and very rarely you will get one that does 4.0Ghz across all six cores.

 

[HD64G]

Good value for that price imo

 

[kapone32]

In this case the 1090T is the way to go but generally speaking the 960T is most cost effective AM3 approach. You also can get lucky about 35% of the time and unlock two extra cores. Usually they are good to about 3.8Ghz and very rarely you will get one that does 4.0Ghz across all six cores.

My first self build was a 965BE. I loved that chip. I got the 1090T because DVDs were in vogue and those 2 extra cores cut my creation time by 20+ percent. If I remember it was 23 minutes to make a DVD from a video file. There was really no difference in gaming, but more games use multi cores now than when Deneb or Thuban were relevant. I think the 1100T was the only chip that would give most users 4.0. That was the thing with them only the best chips could go above 4.0 GHZ.

 

[storm-chaser]

My first self build was a 965BE. I loved that chip. I got the 1090T because DVDs were in vogue and those 2 extra cores cut my creation time by 20+ percent. If I remember it was 23 minutes to make a DVD from a video file. There was really no difference in gaming, but more games use multi cores now than when Deneb or Thuban were relevant. I think the 1100T was the only chip that would give most users 4.0. That was the thing with them only the best chips could go above 4.0 GHZ.

My 970 BE Zosma unlocked to a 4GHz Hexacore. I had the thing living at that speed for close to 7 years and it never missed a beat. As you can see by my avatar I really do love the Phenom II chips. As mentioned the only thing they are lacking now a days are current instruction sets. I've dealt with numerous 960Ts and they typically will run all four cores up to 4ghz or so.
About 40% of them unlocked into hexacore CPUs, however stability is never guarantied at that point.

 

[kapone32]

That is nice congratulations!!!