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Title: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: Getback on May 26, 2010, 07:20:31 PM
Just curious. Not sure what you can do with it.
Title: Re: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: Spikes on May 26, 2010, 07:22:14 PM
Really atm not much you can do that you can't with a quad...I know MAddog is upgrading to the 6 core lineup. Many programs don't even use quads much less 6 core processors...
Title: Re: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: Getback on May 26, 2010, 07:34:54 PM
Quote from: Spikes on May 26, 2010, 07:22:14 PM
Really atm not much you can do that you can't with a quad...I know MAddog is upgrading to the 6 core lineup. Many programs don't even use quads much less 6 core processors...

Yes, that is correct. Just not sure what you are gaining other maybe more cores.
Title: Re: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: cattb on May 27, 2010, 12:45:31 AM
From what I have read there is gain in some areas, just depends on the application software.
Title: Re: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: Skuzzy on May 27, 2010, 06:15:07 AM
From the videographers benches, it looks like it gets about a 2% gain in performance over a quad core.
Title: Re: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: Krusty on May 28, 2010, 10:27:01 PM
Is that because of hardware limitations (i.e. potential bottlenecks, etc) or software limitations (just not coded to utilize all 6 cores)?
Title: Re: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: guncrasher on May 29, 2010, 01:30:48 AM
not an expert here but i say most games/programs aren't even coded to use 4 cores, so 6 wont make a difference.

semp
Title: Re: Has anyone tried the AMD 6 core?
Post by: Skuzzy on May 31, 2010, 07:29:16 AM
Quote from: Krusty on May 28, 2010, 10:27:01 PM
Is that because of hardware limitations (i.e. potential bottlenecks, etc) or software limitations (just not coded to utilize all 6 cores)?

It is not software limitations, as there are some benches using dual Xenon CPUs (16 cores) and they blow everything away by a large margin.