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If I were to get an AMD CPU . . .

Man, you are really hung up on AMD aren't you? :awe: There is really no good reason to put an X6 in a gaming PC.
 
eflat123 said:
Out of curiosity, and for my edification, what would you use it for?
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Not much to be honest. It can be useful in a high-throughput machine (i.e. crunching numbers flat-out all day long) but it really falls behind in "peaky" workloads like general desktop usage and games.
 
mfenn said:
Man, you are really hung up on AMD aren't you? :awe: There is really no good reason to put an X6 in a gaming PC.
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Yeah, a little but hung up 😛 Can't help it. I've used AMD for all my PCs and I like the underdog, lol. <- Bad reasons I know.

So, you don't think games will start using more than four cores/threads? I would think that the x6 would be decent now and than as games start to push more cores it would kinda scale with them. Not sure that it'll ever be faster than the i5 2500k I bought though, which is why I'm gonna keep it.

Anyways, my RAM from Newegg didn't come yet so I may not be putting her together this weekend like I wanted (unlesss it miraculously comes this afternoon). It's weird, everything else I ordered from Newegg came on like Wedensday (course that was all UPS), but they used DHL for the RAM and it's been sitting in MD since the 3rd. Dissapointing. 🙁
 
somethingsketchy said:
Agreed, unless you are gonna SLI or X-fire, an x6 1055T would be overkill. Anyways to answer the OP's question...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130274

This will give you plenty of expansion slots, if you ever plan on going multi GPUs or even TV tuner cards
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That is one fine motherboard, but way too expensive for an AMD build, IMO. I was hoping for someone to look at the combo deal motherboards and tell me which one was the best of those and why. But it's no biggee, I'm just gonna keep the i5 combo I picked up last weekend, bad MB and all. Maybe I'll be lucky and be able to upgrade to the z68 when they do the swap outs.

But thank you for trying 🙂
 
gregoryvg said:
So, you don't think games will start using more than four cores/threads? I would think that the x6 would be decent now and than as games start to push more cores it would kinda scale with them. Not sure that it'll ever be faster than the i5 2500k I bought though, which is why I'm gonna keep it.
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Sure, I think that games will eventually heavily use more than 4 threads. However, as someone with an MS in Computer Science, I can tell you that multithreaded programming is damn hard. Thus, I don't think that games will use more than 4 threads before a Phenom II X6 is considered a very slow processor. I'd recommend buying something that performs better in today's games instead of hoping for a programming revolution.

gregoryvg said:
But it's no biggee, I'm just gonna keep the i5 combo I picked up last weekend, bad MB and all. Maybe I'll be lucky and be able to upgrade to the z68 when they do the swap outs.
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:thumbsup:
 
The 1055T is adept at Gaming. If you're like me and stick with AMD, it's fine for that purpose. No need to spend more than $150 on a mobo and if you won't Crossfire $100 should get you USB3, the better Onboard Audio, and other features used on that linked Mobo.
 
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