Quote Originally Posted by Soulman84 View Post
i can confirm that unlocked APUs has pretty the same frequency limit of the locked ones, obviously they are easyer to tune for the best cpu/ram frequency...big gains are on ln2 where the big limit is from the locked multiplier..this APUs are capable of easy 170/180mhz bus so with max 29x multi on the A8-3850 the maximum frequency doable is around 5/5.2Ghz...with a 3870K you can easy go past 5,6ghz...
I would say this is a yes, my results on air where close to the same as what i got out of my 3850, For the 3x 3870's i have. They all clocked to around 3.8ghz on air, but admittedly I didnt spend much time tuning them on air.

Ln2 wise they did 5790, 5970, and 6016.