Hmmm....

Looks like I get to benchmark things! Wheee!

I'm not too worried about the X6's 'newness'. AMD hit gold with the design on the Athlon/Phenom processors, as it scales beautifully (still). It's literally just adding 2 more processors to the die, along with the needed interconnects and crossbar controller. The DDR3 memory controller has been out long enough for it to prove stable. And enough chips have been run on the 45nm process for any gremlins to have fallen out there

 

Since you still have the 905e version, maybe we could run a similar scene and compare times, Pam (as I don't know if I'm patient enough to do so on one, then build and configure and beat into submission and do so on the new one. You know the old saying about a boy and his toys....). The Gigabyte board I have in the old system is technically capable of running an X6 with a BIOS flash, but I've found that to be very hit and miss, a lot seeming to depend on the actual mobo's quality.

And gee silver, that's =just= what I say about AMD....at least regarding the fact the they work, and work well. :P And that La Intella are rip off artists...... >:)= There may be more =room= for AMD based systems to have issues, as they don't follow 'the pack', but a little care in software loading order has so far tamed all the beasts people keep putting off on AMD design (and reinforces my assertion that the vast majority of issues users have are pebcak. Some are definitely hardware; but those can be diagnosed and repaired. Configuration is the demon bitch from hell). That and simply refusing to load 'social applications' on the now separate CG box. 

Amazing the amount of issues one doesn't have without those.....

What little I've heard seems to follow previous patterns; those using the 4gig DDR3 sticks seem to have no problems if they use them in an out of the box environment. The bitching starts and goes up the more one overclocks. Or the ever present "I got 4 gigs in there, dude! WHY won't my XP use it!!!" Heat does seem to be a touchier subject, as the chips draw more power, so a bad airflow layout could allow them to overheat to instability. We shall see....