Phenom processors aren't that overclockable, achieves 20% only

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Yes it is back to Phenom talk again. From what we experience, Phenom processors running on 790FX or 770 boards aren't that overclockable. In our tests, the CPU can hardly reach 20% of it's default clock.

Stay tuned for more updates on OCWorkbench.

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So it's:
Slower clock-for-clock than Kentsfield, let alone Yorkfield.
Slower clocked than Q6600.
Doesn't overclock at all well. Kentsfield overclocks much better, Yorkfield even more so.

It's going to be fighting a bit of an uphill struggle against Intel, isn't it? It'll have to be cheap...

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Boards based on the 790FX should be cheaper to X38.
but low end AMD 770 should be similarly priced as Intel P965