Posted 01/15/2009 at 12:39:50am

3 weeks ago I put together a Phenom 8750 and a TA770 A2+ with a 8800GT. So the 8750 runs at 2.9. Did 3dmark06 and got the same score as a 8400 Wolfie with the same 8800GT....online result. The 8750 runs at less than 40 degrees no matter what with a Opteron 185 cooler and the fan at 90%

Have waited for January to see what AMD was going to do. Am buying a Phenom II 940 and 2 4870's for a Biostar 790GXM-A board and will try to run the cpu at 3.6 on air. It should be enough for anything out there now or in the near term.

In other reviews with a OC'd 940 Phenom, game performace was on a par with the Intel 9770 or the I7 920, and that's what matters to me, since I don't rip movies or MP3's, but the main factor in all this is price. I don't need a $549-$700 cpu, or a new motherboard for $299.

I'm not saying the new Phenoms are the best, just that it makes alot more sense to me to not have to throw out existing hardware and start over. I realize you can OC Intels chips into oblivion so the whole overclocking deal a non issue but it's nice to just set the multiplier in the bios.