Quote Originally Posted by Nasgul View Post
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the phenom II holds its own at its price and is on par with yorkfield(its compeition) on benchmarks that matter and close to i7 for gaming. to me its not nearly a budget system but i guess you are entitled to your own opinion. don't see how this will bother you much since you are "Intel & nVidia GeForce user, exclusively." id like to remind you of this: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=480

seems like a pretty good cpu but it looks like how it overclocks/scales will make it or break it.