Worth upgrading from a PhenomII X3 720 to X6 1100t?

[poohbear]

Hey all, i currently have the setup in my sig, my X3 720 is overclocked to 3500mhz and doing good. I wanted to upgrade to a 2500k sys come July, but w/ mobo, RAM, heatsink, and the 2500k cpu im looking @ $500+ atleast.

My coworker is selling a new X6 1100T for only $160, so im leaning towards that to hold me over for a few months longer to see if Bulldozer will be worth an upgrade to. If i have the X6 1100T now & decide to go w/ BD, i can slowly upgrade mobo, RAM, and carry the X6 1100T over. I'd then get a BD come winter & spread out the cost. In the meantime i'd have a nice 6 core cpu @ 4.2ghz to play around with (seems like the avg overclock). So i'd get 6 cores pluz a 700mhz jump in overclock (hopefully).

Thing is im already seeing some of my fav new games recommend a quadcore CPU (The Witcher 2, FEAR 3, Deus Ex 3) on the box ("required" is a dual core, but "recommended" is quad core). So it would be nice to have more cores until i upgrade the RAM & mobo. Oh & i do alot of video transcoding too (encode movies to MP4 format to watch em on my Smartphone @ the gym).

What do u guys thinks? thanks in advance for any feedback.

 

[bart1975]

I would stick with what you have for now. You will not notice $160 worth of difference.

 

[ET]

Funny I just posted a similar question about upgrading from 710 to 1090T. I actually thought I was entering my thread before I read more closely.

If you're doing a lot of video transcoding then doubling the number of cores will surely help. The 1100T beat last gen Intel Core CPU's at that. Of course Sandy Bridge has special support for this, but if you want to stay with AMD that's probably as good as you'll currently get.

 

[toolbag]

What I would do if I were you... Since you already have almost a quad core, buy an AM3+ board and memory and use your 3 core you have now until bulldozer comes out. You can get a motherboard and memory for under what you were going to pay for that cpu. Then by the time bulldozer comes out you might have more money saved.

To me this makes the most sense. Because you are maximizing your money spent but getting new technology with a very good upgrade path.

p.s. You might get lucky and unlock that 3 core cpu with a am3+ board that unlocks and have yourself a quad.

 

[Bartman39]

You might also consider that selling the 3 core cpu you have will help offset the cost of that 6 core your wanting which at $160 is and excellent price...? To me it would be a good upgrade now and then in a year or so when BD becomes availible and solidly on the market you could move on at that point...?

I dont see though a SB 2500K & MB, memory costing $500 though...? Maybe $400 but it doesnt take an awesome MB & memory to have great performance from a SB setup...:thumbsup:

 

[poohbear]

You might also consider that selling the 3 core cpu you have will help offset the cost of that 6 core your wanting which at $160 is and excellent price...? To me it would be a good upgrade now and then in a year or so when BD becomes availible and solidly on the market you could move on at that point...?

I dont see though a SB 2500K & MB, memory costing $500 though...? Maybe $400 but it doesnt take an awesome MB & memory to have great performance from a SB setup...:thumbsup:

yea thats what i was thinking. $160 is a great price, i would never pay full retail for it! If i sell the x720 for $70 then i just paid $90 for a 700mhz jump in performance and 3 more cores!^^

yes for the components i want, a sandy bridge setup would be $550. I want tight RAM timing cause my favorite game's minimum FPS increase with tighter 7-7-7 timings, so thats an extra $40-50 just for the RAM. Yes my fav game (DoW2) DOES have increased minimum FPS from tighter ram timings even though other games dont benefit so much from it. I'd also need a new aftermarket heatsink for Z68 Socket mobo cause i love overclocking, so all these things add up.


the thing is im not even sure if i'm gonna upgrade to BD. If its performance is on par w/ SB 2500k and offers 2 extra cores then sure its a no brainer. otherwise come winter i'll just sell my PhenomII setup and just go w/ latest from Intel. I just want a quad core to hold me over till then.

 

[daveybrat]

Go for it, that's a great price on that 1100T! For that price, i'd also upgrade from my Athlon II Quad-Core and sell mine.

You should notice a nice improvement overall from the charts at Tomshardware.

 

[skipsneeky2]

If i was you i wouldn't hesitate at that price to buy it

 

[BD231]

I made the switch from a 720 to this 1055 I got for ubber cheap, sold off the 720. Got a big boost transcoding and I saw a nice little jump in multi-tasking, also got more overclocking headroom on my DDR3 from the C3 memory controller.

The biggest reason for the switch was because I wanted a C3 chip though, they overclock better than the C2's.

edit: I'll be dumping this combo pretty soon in favor of sandy bridge, I realize I probably don't need to but being that it's so cheap to get a 2500k I don't see a point to sitting on dated tech. In fact I should probably get a move on with it already. I say sell your x3 and go sandy bridge.

 

[poohbear]

If i was you i wouldn't hesitate at that price to buy it

yep i sent the cash today.^^ worse comes to worse i have a new toy to play with! it'll hold me over till the fall or winter, lets see how BD performs and if it bombs i'll just wait for Ivy bridge i guess.

thanks all!

 

[soccerballtux]

I unlocked my 720 to a quad core and OC'd to 3.5ghz as well. Because of this, I just can't justify upgrading it's still too fast for what I need it for.