Bandit
April 3rd, 2012, 02:58 AM
Well my Phenom 9850 Quad Core has been a good chip, but I been getting the urge to upgrade. I am prominently a AMD user and plan my upgrades and purchases around their offerings. I am interested in new 8 core FX series, but they have been getting so pretty disappointing results. Some even mention older PhenomII quad cores out performing them in gaming and multimedia video editing.
Now I havent forgot other areas to upgrade as well...
Disk IO performance is good, but always can be better. I am running 4x 320GB WD Blue Cav drives. Ruffly about 1.3TB of unformatted data space and even it being software raid I get 380MB/s Reads and 370MB/s Writes using Crystal Mark using NTFS, using EXT4 under Fedora and Ubuntu both I get just a touch slower, but still respectable performance.
Video card I just purchased last summer, so wanting to hang onto it much longer. Besides I dont game and it would not help with program compiling or video and sound trans-coding. Its a MSI Cyclone O/C'd NV 460 GTX. Great running card and well worth the money.
RAM, yea this is getting upgraded. Currently running 4GB of PNY Optima Dual Channel DDR2-800. Upping this to 16GB (4x4GB) of Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600. So RAM wasnt overlooked.
Mobo is going to be upgraded as well, unfortunately even tho I like this board. It only supports 6 core chips and up to 8GB of DRAM. Got my eye on a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX.
Which leaves only the CPU to ponder over. Could a 6 Core PhenomII X6 Thuban 2.7GHZ Chip speed past a FX-8150 8 Core 3.6GHz? At 250ish on newegg, it appears to be a good price. But I hate to spend the money and it be no faster then the Phenom 9850 I am running now.. Guess I am just paranoid..
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Now I havent forgot other areas to upgrade as well...
Disk IO performance is good, but always can be better. I am running 4x 320GB WD Blue Cav drives. Ruffly about 1.3TB of unformatted data space and even it being software raid I get 380MB/s Reads and 370MB/s Writes using Crystal Mark using NTFS, using EXT4 under Fedora and Ubuntu both I get just a touch slower, but still respectable performance.
Video card I just purchased last summer, so wanting to hang onto it much longer. Besides I dont game and it would not help with program compiling or video and sound trans-coding. Its a MSI Cyclone O/C'd NV 460 GTX. Great running card and well worth the money.
RAM, yea this is getting upgraded. Currently running 4GB of PNY Optima Dual Channel DDR2-800. Upping this to 16GB (4x4GB) of Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600. So RAM wasnt overlooked.
Mobo is going to be upgraded as well, unfortunately even tho I like this board. It only supports 6 core chips and up to 8GB of DRAM. Got my eye on a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX.
Which leaves only the CPU to ponder over. Could a 6 Core PhenomII X6 Thuban 2.7GHZ Chip speed past a FX-8150 8 Core 3.6GHz? At 250ish on newegg, it appears to be a good price. But I hate to spend the money and it be no faster then the Phenom 9850 I am running now.. Guess I am just paranoid..
Any thoughts or suggestions?