AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor

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Currently running this at 3.7GHz undervolted to 1.35v, Prime stable, LinX stable 6 hours so far... Competitive with the i5 or i7 offering and still lets me use my DDR2 RAM. Good stuff.

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I just purchased the 1055T upgrading from an X2. I find it is really performing at any level. With an ATI 4890 I gained 1000 points on 3D-Mark 06. I had 2 options: either upgrade my graphic card to a 5000-Series or upgrade the CPU. I went with the latter and saved a few months with my current graphic card. I compared with my brother's i7 960 and poor guy with a $450 MB I beat him quite often. He makes me laugh with his PC. I have a Crosshair III but the BIOS needs improvement.

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I built a system around this chip to use for studying for certs, so I'm running lots of server VM's with my TechNET subscription and intend on simultaneously running blu-ray and media to my LCD TV. I'm having a hard time bogging the chip down. The storage seems to be more of a bottle neck, so be sure to set up your system around this chip for lots of parallelism - lots of memory, hard drive spindles, and tasks to do, or programs that benefit from threads. Don't expect faster single tasks, expect to do more at the same time and you won't be disappointed. Stick to fast duals or quads if you want just a game machine or are not a heavy user.

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I have to respond to the person who complained about the performance of this new six-core chip. Core-parallelism, aka: adding more cores to a CPU, only increases the performance of the entire system if the work load being applied to that system can be distributed over all of the available cores. Most games are very poor at doing this, at most taxing a couple of CPUs. Future games must get better at this, but probably by then we'll be talking about 8 and 12 core desktop CPUs. This is not a gaming CPU, but if for instance you want to make a low-cost render farm or some other highly parallel task, or if you want to run a gazillion browser windows, Photoshop, Outlook, five chat clients, Video editing apps, and video transcoding all at the same time than this CPU is perfect, and remarkably cheap. Just make sure you have enough RAM to make it worthwhile.

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I decided to step up from a 965 to the 1055T, and guess what: No significant change. My FPS were pretty much the same, compression and decompression is slower by a few seconds, and I experienced no change in video and photo editing. This is pretty much a Fermi release, only with better value. Really sad to see AMD fail on their best chance on Intel...