You mean the 'Steve's' don't you Matthew?

...but which Steve is the evil one ...the LH Steve , or the TS Steve?

i have my amd phenom 2 x6 1090t running on liquid clocked to 5.7ghz.......i wanna see anyone do that with their precious intel. i have always been a amd fan but i lost what respect i had for intel when they started putting their overpriced junk into apples,when they did that the statement they made was yuppies can now play on their apples while drinking their starbucks and be using intel.....how sweet

oh come now... Not unless the "liquid" is LN2, or you won the binning lottery of historic and freakish proportions. Cant wait for the PS'd screen shot though.

WOW!!! Not bad considering the world record for the 1090t on H2O is 4.9GHz ...oh, and here's the wPrime run....

You mean like 5.3GHz with a 980X on H2O? (hex-core) or 5.8GHz best stable OC on water for an Intel CPU ?

...a little man who must be quiet ?

I bet AMD are thrilled

Because everyone knows IBM based PowerPC CPU's are the way of the future.

...while you stand outside fogging up the glass and obscuring the view whilst panhandling no doubt. What's your schtick?....

Very nice review. I also read the review on the 1100T BE and I've decided on holding off on upgrading. I'm running a Phenom II X4 955 BE currently and I've been able to overclock it to 3.4 GHz stably simply by bumping up the clock multiplier - no FSB bump or voltage increase needed. Since I use my system mainly for gaming the extra 2 cores in an X6 won't amount for much at this point in time - I pretty much figured that from the get-go since very few games seem to take advantage of multi-core so having 4 or 6 cores vs 2 makes little difference in most cases. Being able to potentially OC in the 4GHz range would be nice, but not at the price vs. performance factor at this point. When the CPU prices drop a bit more I will consider it.

The biggest advantage in my opinion to the AMD processors has been the ability to upgrade without having to change motherboards/platforms. I upgraded from an AMD X2 core to an X3 to my current CPU using the same motherboard, and I could upgrade to the lastest x6 core if I wanted to. The X2 processor was from another system where the MB bit the dust, but the AM2/AM2+/AM3 socket has allowed me to upgrade easily and rather inexpensively as prices have fallen over the past couple of years. And if I wanted to replace my current motherboard and be able upgrade to DDR3 memory, etc. I still could with another MB using the same chipset so I wouldn't have to install the OS from scratch - and generally those motherboards are less expensive than their Intel counterparts. Not so easily done with Intel CPU's and motherboards - your Core 2 Duo simply isn't going to fit into that i7 motherboard and allow you to upgrade the CPU later.