AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition 3.6 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review @ PCStats

One of the last great Phenom II processors before Bulldozer.

AMD's Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition is a quad-core, 3.6GHz socket AM3 chip with 6MB of L3 cache and 512KB of L2 cache per core. It's being released in tandem with the AMD Phenom II X4 840 CPU. Both processors are ideally suited to socket AM3 motherboards built around the recent AMD 890FX or 890GX chipsets. The Phenom II X4 975 BE is backwards compatible with socket AM2+ motherboards and forwards compatible with the as yet unreleased socket AM3+ platform.

Cannot say I am in the market for a Quad Core Phenom II since for the money the Hex Core seems to be a much better deal.  However if you do go for this just tell everyone you're running the 975 Quad, they might mistake it for the better Core i7 975 Extreme Edition. 

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