Reviewers Liked
- Real improvement over 965
- TurboCore speed of 3.7 GHz
- A total of 9MB of cache
- 6 cores at competitive price
- Unlocked multiplier for easier overclocking
- Works in almost all current AMD motherboards
- Runs fairly cool
- Low power consumption
- Excellent performance in media transcoding and professional rendering and modelling
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Current software does not benefit from all 6 cores
- Limited performance increase over previous top-of-the-line AMD CPU
- Outperformed in key areas by similarly-priced Intel chips
- Intel still has a better performance in light threaded application
- Cheaper Thuban CPUs are just as fast with a little tweaking
- Cannot support an NVIDIA SLI system with AMD chipset motherboard