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The AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition is not a launch that many people have been waiting on with baited breath, as it is a core clock boosted X6 1090T Black Edition. An evolutionary release – not a new design from the ground up, we will have to wait a while longer for that.
Perhaps we were lucky with our sample but we found that 4.3ghz was easily achievable with high end air cooling and the potential is there for 4.4ghz+, if you are willing to risk 1.6 volts (or more) with a quality watercooling configuration. Our 1090T samples have always had trouble getting to 4.1ghz and beyond. As far as we are concerned, this is AMD's finest processor to date and in certain situations can match, or beat Intel's Core i7 950 Quad Core, which is slightly more expensive.
Cryptography performance is exceptional, showing that for specific mathematical calculations such as Hash algorithms and security related encryption and decryption the AMD X6 1100T makes for a very low cost, high performance choice.
3D encoding performance is also an area in which the X6 1100T shines, with the Cinema 4D engine showing real world gains with the extra physical cores, rather than Intel's Hyperthreaded boosted configuration. The Intel Core i7 950 is a fantastic processor, but within the realms of multi threaded physical processing, the X6 1100T is more than a match for Intel's mid range chip.
AMD are always wanting to focus on the price points they can achieve and £225 for this processor is surely one of the bargains of the year. Sure, the 1090T has dropped to £200 now, and the 1055T can be picked up for £150 – but the 1100T is such a straightforward processor to overclock that 4.1ghz is easily reached with minimal effort. If you however have little interest in overclocking and don't need to squeeze every drop of performance from your CPU then the 1055T is a wise choice – 6 cores for £150 is hard to ignore.
We have been exceptionally impressed with this latest offering from AMD – they have yet to mount an attack on the high end Intel Core i7 processors such as the 970 and 980x, but in the lucrative mid range market their X6 Black Edition processors continue to shine.
KitGuru says: 6 unlocked physical cores for £225: 4.3ghz+ is easily possible – time to upgrade to a Noctua NH D14.
bloody hell, nice overclock man. that is a cracker processor.
Love the cinema4d information, i use an older quad core for rendering a lot and this seems like my next upgrade. price point is better than I thought. I remember the 1090t was 250 when it came out.
Like the idea of a review/OC guide. I never know how the fuck to overclock my chips. the 1055T guide you did helped me alot.
Id love to say ill get this for my upgrade, but its a bad time of the year, maybe in the new year.
Love it. well done.
Nice overclock. I only managed to get 500mhz out of my 1055T which was pretty poor. Good to get your views on voltage also, not many ocing guidelines on that and hard to know from forums who is talking out of their ass and who is right.
OCUK are selling this for £225 inc vat? thats a deal and a half, just ordered one.
Ive been holding off on a new platform for ages. Im a multiple core fan, I bought the first core quad eons ago and havent upgraded since. Might look into this in the new year when I have some spare cash to burn.
I agree this is one of the best looking AMD chips yet, the overclocking potential seems high. that noctua NH D14 cooler is insane however, covers the motherboard basically !! not exactly easy to work around it.
unusual review style, but I like the overclocking guide concept. My friend used the 1055T guide here months ago and it helped him. headroom seems higher on this chip, but I think it might be a hand picked review sample? possible ?
If you arent overclocking then its not worth the premium over the 1090t. pointless really. I hope this review sample is a good indication of headroom. I watercool and I got the 1090T to 4.3ghz easy enough with 1.65 volts. potential for 4.5ghz here.
I like this editorial. its a boring release so getting the max from air cooling is a nice way to differentiate the test results. Seems to be a good purchase, but its hard to fault for the price. its a strength of AMD’s releases in the last year. aim for the lowest point possible and max the cores.