If you own or have seen someone try a Phenom X4 on a older AM2 platform, you would know they have serious problems everywhere in typical functioning and need a new BIOS which there isn't ATM. GPU performance is horrible along with them compared to an X2 chip in the same board. This is of 23rd Nov rather than 10-16th Nov of the review experimentations. You can't even set RAM timings like SPD without BSODs on the best of ASUS' AM2 board, so those "reviews" which use an AM2 board could've easily had bugged lower numbers in absolute contexts. The new 790 boards should show no problems though apart from Gigabyte's Overdrive support. I have both a new AM2+ and an old AM2 board to check this out very soon.

So, what do the people here think of a common air/water oc for Phenom 9500/9600? Lets hear some educated guesses.