Anyone care to work out the wattage on an FX-55 at 2v/3.92GHz max (albeit idle) and 1.68v/3.45GHz 100% load running F@H 24/7? I get 183w, which was stable for MONTHS without the proper cooling on the PWMs - and that was only four phase. It really isn't the NUMBER of phases but the quality. Now take George's example of a P4 3.4GHz EE Gallatin core at 4600MHz and 2.23v and I get 288w, again done on 4 phase back then.

What's the TDP on an X4 965BE C2 at 4GHz 1.54v? And an X6 1090T at the same speed? I don't understand why the number of cores affects anything if the TDP is similar. Please someone enlighten me