PCPER.com: 5 GHZ+ Phenom II Overclock on Dry Ice, 6Ghz on LN2

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Read the article again.Crysis is,AFAIK,not stressing all 4 cores,hence it's not a full load.But yeah,you can rest assured these thing will run relatively cool(compared to other CPUs),even after heavy OCing and overvolting.Another big plus since nobody wants a melting socket/board or excess heat heating up other components.

Relatively cool with 125 W TDP? E.g. Pentium D 820 was 95 W and I recall it was "too hot!".

I don't think Phenom2 will be faster then Phenom, or at least not much. Remember the AMD chart? Phenom2 was about 16% faster then the old Phenom while the Phenom2 was clocked 15% higher.

There are tests of Shanghai compared to Barcelona. They show improvement. Besides, what is the point in triplefolding L3 if it brings no improvements? What about the other claimed improvements, E.g. improcved branch predictor, prefetcher, TLB...?

There is improvement, somewehere near 8-12 % average, depending a lot on programs used for measurement. Besides, which chart are you talking about? URL would be great.