AMD Phenom II Review Thread

[Lightman]

Even though I got our chip stable at 3.9, it more or less sucked when trying to clock HTT or NB speeds up. The chip would lock at 211 HTT and NB set over 2200 resulted in a no-POST situation on six different boards, so the chip was not that good in my opinion. We have three retail chips arriving today to test and we will push HTT/NB as mentioned in the review. AMD told us that week 50 and up parts are seeing significant improvements in both core clock and HTT clock capabilities compared to our ES samples.

Exactly what I've said in earlier in this thread.
You seem to have oldest samples of revision RB-C2 I've seen on internet. Anything from 0839 to 0843.
At least in Europe retail stock is 0850 and onwards. Tomorrow I should find out what we have in UK.
Granted it came from Macci, but he already demonstrated NB clocks in the range of 3.3GHz on a 0850 retail chip. Also HondaGuy, member of XS, has shown close to 3GHz NB.

I wonder how much further they can improve it in RB-C3 revision.

PS. Have you already received AM3 platforms for evaluation? I hope the answer for this question is not under NDA