Upgrading from Core2 Quad to Phenom II 1090T, worth it?

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FlasHBurN

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So I currently have a Core2 Quad 2.5ghz setup, with 4GB of Ram. I have some connections that can get me a Phenom II 1090T for about $170. I figure it would cost about $400 between 8GB Ram, motherboard, and CPU. My GPU is a ATI Radeon 5850.

I do a decent amount of multi-tasking but only the very occasionally multimedia usage, and usually it's just transcoding flac to mp3. Mostly just email, web browsing, bit torrent, listening to music, and also playing games. I am usually playing the newer games, but the main one I currently play is WoW, and occasionally Starcraft 2.

I've read some of the benchmarks, and just raw performance wise AMD's offering isn't so great, but the price definitely is. I'm just wondering if I'm really going to see much of an improvement from what I currently have?
 
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Personally, I would put that money towards a Sandy Bridge platform. With SB you will have future upgrades possibilities. 775/1156/1366/AM3 are dead.
 
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RavenSEAL

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Look, the way i see it with AMD is.

For the price and overclocking capabilities, the AMD chips destroy intel. Price being the key word.

If 20%-30% stock performance intel chips have over AMD chips is enough to make you drop an extra $200 on a CPU, go for it, if not AMD is just fine.
 
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zokudu

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I wouldn't suggest a platform swap right now. If you have a quad Phenom II then sure grab a 1090T but swapping CPU/Motherboard/RAM right now isnt the best decision. Sandy Bridge releases in 12 days or so. If you can wait see whats going on with that and make an informed decision then.
 
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bryanW1995

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ZipSpeed said:
Personally, I would put that money towards a Sandy Bridge platform. With SB you will have future upgrades possibilities. 775/1156/1366/AM3 are dead.
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ROTFLMAO.

yes, b/c intel is so renowned for keeping their platforms alive long-term...

1156 never got anything better than a quad nehalem. 1366 also died without a new cpu for it. at least 775 covered pentium d/c2d/c2q/penryn, but I think that intel's future plans involve more $$$ to upgrade and a new platform each time. having said that, SB will be the latest and greatest when it comes out, and the other platforms are dead.

@OP: don't waste the money, just oc your current quad. you probably wouldn't notice any difference at all going to the 1090t.
 
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FlasHBurN

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Okay, fair enough. That 15% off memory deal at Newegg almost enticed me to make a decision.

Performance wise would I even see much of an improvement going from my Core2Quad to the 1090T?

edit: This was before Bryan's response. Thanks Bryan. I think I'll wait for now then.
 
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FlasHBurN said:
Okay, fair enough. That 15% off memory deal at Newegg almost enticed me to make a decision.

Performance wise would I even see much of an improvement going from my Core2Quad to the 1090T?

edit: This was before Bryan's response. Thanks Bryan. I think I'll wait for now then.
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Get the memory now, save it for the build. The 2 x 2 gig ripjaws 1600 DDR3 is now $42.50 with that deal !!!! Get 8 gig for $85 ! It will work in SB or the 1090T or (amlost) anything current.
 
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FlasHBurN

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I'm kind of tempted to get that Sabertooth + 12GB Ram combo for $295, and then wait a week for Sandy Bridge and hopefully that drops the price of the i7's a bit. Ugh, I hate making decisions like these.

Actually it's only $274 after the DKMEM15 coupon.
 
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maniac5999

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Right now the only reason to go with a X6 instead of a quad is Encoding/distributed computing tasks. Generally games are lucky if they can effectively use 3 cores, and most of those other things can only use 1. (Well, maybe if you have 50 browser windows open with flash adds in each a X6 might help, but that's an edge case)

I would also say to wait. I'd also tell you to overclock that C2Q. There's a good chance that you'd be able to get it to 3.0-3.5ghz, which would put it about equal to the 1095T in most of the tasks that you do.
 
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bryanW1995 said:
ROTFLMAO.

yes, b/c intel is so renowned for keeping their platforms alive long-term...

1156 never got anything better than a quad nehalem. 1366 also died without a new cpu for it. at least 775 covered pentium d/c2d/c2q/penryn, but I think that intel's future plans involve more $$$ to upgrade and a new platform each time. having said that, SB will be the latest and greatest when it comes out, and the other platforms are dead.

@OP: don't waste the money, just oc your current quad. you probably wouldn't notice any difference at all going to the 1090t.
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+1. Why bother? Just OC what you have.
 
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Vdubchaos

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What is the goal of the upgrade? What are you trying to accomplish?

What is your current set up NOT doing well? And how much faster will AMD be for the $$$ you spend.

All of these questions you need to ask and answer yourself.
 
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