Reviewers Liked
- Stable performance
- Overclockes well
- No heat issues
- Six physical cores
- Lots of computing power in multithreaded applications
- Turbo Core implementation
- Compatibility with older chipsets
- Low operating temperatures
- Can support extensive virtualization, price, comaptible with existing am2, am3 sockets with bios update
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Not the best choice for hardcore gamers
- Massive increase in power consumption and heat output when overclocking
- A little expensive for some
- Performance is still low as compared with intel core i7 980X
- Shared L3 cache is the same between fourand sixcore units
- Utilizes aging 45nm fabrication process
- TurboCore (still in its infancy)