AMD Phenom II

After Intel’s i7 980x became the new standard in CPU, AMD started working on their six-core alternative for people on a budget and released two six-core processors, the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T clocked at a base clock of 3.2GHz and the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T at 2.8GHz.Do not be mistaken, performance wise these two can’t compete with the thousand dollar Intel version, but at 289USD, it can compete with say a quad-core Core i7 950 ~ 965 when it comes to multi-threaded applications.Now that second processor, the Phenom II X6 1055T, is in fact even more surprising as it is a budget six-core processor, the 1055T at 2.8GHz which is going to cost 199USD. That’s right, a six-core CPU clocked at 2800 MHz for less than 200USD. That means sheer processing for very little money.