Quote Originally Posted by Extelleron View Post
And Phenom II isn't going to be consuming a lot of power when it is overclocked to 4.0GHz with 1.6V, which seems to be what is required? When 3.0GHz/1.35V is already ~125W TDP.......... any CPU is going to consume a lot of power when you are pushing it to the limit with insane voltages/clocks.
Q9xx0 also has 95-125W TDP, we don't see that in reality do we?
everyone intel-minded says don't look at the TDP, your quadcores don't consume that much, but when AMD releases a quadcore with 125W, suddenly it is bad....