Overclocking

Overclocking was done without excessive abuse of operational voltage to keep heat output and power consumption in check. Voltage of 1.50V was used to find the maximum stable clock under a small Scythe Katana III cooler. The end result was 4.21 GHz, which is about 100 MHz below what Phenom II X4 975 achieved when it was reviewed, but still a nice result for Deneb core. Results vary from sample to sample, but we have seen most C3 Deneb cores pass 4 GHz maximum clock. Nevertheless, the power consumption and heat output are greatly increased, almost to a point when performance increase can't justify it. The overclocked results are shown below.

3D Mark 11

wPrime 1024M and SuperPI 1M

dBpoweramp

x264 HD

Cinebench

WinRAR benchmark

Gaming

System Power Consumption and Temperatures