AMD's Phenom II X6 CPU's come out today

[NMFTM]

The 1090T (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103849&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL042710&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL042710-_-EMC-042710-Index-_-ProcessorsDesktops-_-19103849-L0A) clocked at 3.2GHz and the 1055T (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103851&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL042710&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL042710-_-EMC-042710-Index-_-ProcessorsDesktops-_-19103851-L0K) clocked at 2.8GHz. For everyday applications I doubt it'd make any difference. But you could run 2 virtual machines at once and give each VM 2 cores while still having 2 for your actual OS. Or, even if you didn't need that kind of power today. Your computer would certainly be future-proofed.

If they're putting out six core CPU's now, I wonder what we're going to be seeing in 5 years.

[asddf]

More than 5 years but:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

[LowSky]

I would buy one but I'm spending the same money on the new HTC Incredible on Thursday.

Maybe when I know for certain that my MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard can use one I will pick it up, because I don't like the idea of spending all the money to find out I will need to spend even more.

[NCLI]

I'll definitely be getting a 1090T for my media server, it has some problems transcoding 1080P movies with high bitrates on-the-fly. Besides, I need to get it ready for 3D, which will be even more taxing.

[3rdalbum]

Oh, they're tempting me away from the Blue side! Unfortunately none of those cores is going to be as fast as a reasonable i5, but there's six of them... would make light work of h264 encoding!

I misread the model number of the 3.2GHz chip as "ID10T".

[EarthMind]

I'd upgrade if they had interesting advantages but as for gaming they don't really improve much because mostly the card and the HDD are the bottlenecks, And I don't do any video editing or extremely heavy multitasking which my quad core can't handle.

[swoll1980]

I'll wait for the price to come down some. When I bought my mobo in Feburary, I made sure it would work with the new AMD.

[ukripper]

I am happy with my core2duos and X2s cheap and cheerful!

[madhi19]

I am happy with my core2duos and X2s cheap and cheerful!
Yeah am looking at building a cheap rig that would cost me around $300 now and probably $1500 barely just three years ago!

[ukripper]

Yeah am looking at building a cheap rig that would cost me around $300 now and probably $1500 barely just three years ago!

Core2duo may suit your needs in that respect and also are energy effecient. I personaly get an Amd sempron for energy saving though

[NMFTM]

Core2duo may suit your needs in that respect and also are energy effecient.
Unless your buying dozens of workstations for an office or are using a laptop, does energy efficiency really matter? Even very highend systems won't consume more than $100 worth of electricity a year if you had the it running at full load 24/7. And that's a liberal estimate. A good set of speakers will consume a lot of juice (in comparison to the rest of the computer setup) though.