Phenom II X6 1055T and 1090T review

AMD six-core processor has been touted - the king of budget is going strong

• AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
• AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

It has been roughly a month ever since Intel released their first consumer class six-core processor. That processor was welcomed very much in the high-end segment of PC hardware, the downside however .. it is a thousand dollar processor keeping it out of reach for 99.99% of you guys.

Very shortly after the successful release of that Core i7 980 Extreme processor things started to speed up at camp AMD as well. Initially planned for later this year, AMD started to reconfigure and position some of the pending SKUs, yes rumors started to surface on the processor series previously known as Thuban.

Thuban is AMD's 45nm based consumer generation of six-core processors. More and more rumors started to pop up though, the processor would get a serious 9MB cache and AMD was supposedly also working on their own 'Turbo boost mode that depending on the active work threads on the processor, which can increase the frequency to give single threaded application a little more bite.

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