AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 

If the CPU finds itself in a condition where 3 or more cores are idle, the processor can use Turbo CORE technology to boost the active 3 cores to 3.3GHz improving performance on less heavily-threaded workloads.

After settling my overclock I was folding bigadv units, normally reserved for 8 core/thread+ chips and getting the units in with in the deadline.

The Corsair Dominator memory modules were run in double-channel mode at 1600MHz with 8,8,8,24 timings.

The whole process takes 40-90 seconds, after which we has a rock solid overclock of 658MHz with a fsb of 247MHz!

Ive had a Cooler Master V8 which cooled it to 11c and now have a Corsair H100 which cools it to mid teens and never gets above 43c-for anything.

Our 1055T sample will hit 3.65GHz with an air cooler, a respectable result given the stock 2.8GHz frequency.

Multi-core performance shows that the true six cores of the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T was superior to the four cores plus the four additional threads of the Intel Core I7 930.

Core for core, Intel's processors are much more powerful.

Remember when AMD launched its first quad-core processor in 2007?

Benchmark Results: The AMD Phenom II X6 1055T was able to out perform all of the processors including the Intel Core I7 930 in all of the multi-media tests.

Benchmark Results: When it comes to wPrime the number of cores is king.

It is also worth noting that AMD has always been a leader in price to performance ratios.

All in all, this chip has handled a year of abuse, folding, gaming, and everyday use for over a year now and keeps on like it was brand new.

I was looking to build a new gaming rig.

This is the reason that it performed the best in this game test as the game title is clearly optimized to run on six physical cores.