Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Well all of those(especially fx parts) were great chips,but didn't offer asmuch in terms of OCing and tweaking as K10.5(thanks to much better process and added L3) . I'm not sure if 9600 phenom you have is BlackEd. or regular,but it might hit 2.8+Ghz depending on cooling and board.
Oh don't get my post too serious, it was under " " . I myself never ran a CPU at default ,apart from initial assembly/boot process.You can see why my OCing standards are a bit over the top .
i wish i had the black edition.