Phenom II Review Summaries.....

[Hornet331]

What I'm really surprised about is none of these reviews touched on temps......With an intel chip you need to spend a small fortune in upgrading cooling just to OC the darn thing, and this is with Core 2 quads........I7's will likely accelerate global warming ( ok maybe an exxageration but they run freaking hot ) Meanwhile toss the stock heatpipe stock cooler on the AMD chip run it at 3.7 with .10 over stock and call it a day.....this changes the price/performance ratio even more so.

Cause the temps are not compare able, the method how and where its measured is to different.
P1 and P2 have one diode somewhere under the IHS and thats it.

C2D has one DTS per core on the hotest spot and Ci7 even has multiple DTS across each core on different hotspots and reports the highest temp form each core.

Also there are quite a few pehoms with a brocken/not claibrated diodes, showing less then ambient temp.

the only decent way to make a comparison between this two would be to use a thermocouple and measure the temp on the IHS. Sure this wouldn't give you the core temps but its a lot better as the internal cpu diodes.