Quote Originally Posted by accord99 View Post
At stock perhaps, but the updated Hwbox review suggests Phenom II's power usage grows at a incredible rate when overclocked, to a point where it uses more power than an equally clocked i7 at 3.7GHz.

This would explain why AMD couldn't break 4GHz on air cooling.
research before posting. i believe the first leak ever about phenom II was when coolaler reached 4ghz on air and we have seen many others at 4.5ghz on air too. also if you would look at the chips of many people clocked here you would see that even at 3.7ghz it still stays pretty cool. look at all the screens charged and honda guy have posted. many people are reaching 3.5, 3.6ghz on stock volts too so it really isn't that power hungry. i have no clue where hwbox got all of their numbers from but the power consumption seems really far off compared to every other screen we have seen for phenom II so far.