It has to be said, AMD has some great chipsets out there today, both northbridges and southbridges have been well received by reviewers and consumers. The OverDrive feature is one of the most comprehensive and exciting tools we’ve seen, but unfortunately it was limited by the poor overclocking potential of the Phenom series. Not really much of a point to have tons of features, when the CPU won’t give you more than 20% overclock anyway. But then we read that the coming southbridge SB750 might improve the overclocking significantly.
Our Swedish colleague writing for Fudzilla, reports that SB750 boosts a feature that makes it possible to push a Phenom to 3.2GHz, instead of just barely beyond 3.0GHz. It’s not a giant improvement, but it really shows that AMD has a great weapon in its chipset department, not to mention macci. We only wish the CPU department were as focused on the needs of the true geeks and enthusiasts.
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