AMD Phenom II X4 Quad 955 Core 3.2GHz Processor 4 x 512 KB Boxed - Black Edition

Product neatly packaged and included the AMD chip plus a heatsink/fan. Assembled quickly and the heatsink included pre applied thermal paste. Along side 4GB of RAM this is a great cpu for the money. Fully recommended.

Well what can I say, I bought this with a motherboard for a little more than a package deal from PC World. What did I get? I got a considerably superior product, with the versatility to fit into both my current motherboard AM2+ socket and an AM3 socket should I upgrade my motherboard and RAM in the future.

The box includes a CPU, fitting instructions and a heatsink/fan with thermal grease already applied. Fitting it was simple and easy and all went smoothly, though as with most fans on this socket it was a tight fit.

Performance wise, it is what it says it is really and all the reviews speak highly, at the time of writing an upper-mid range processor. Then again I was going from a Athlon X2 3600+ dual core processor running at 2.01 GHz to this so I'd been prepared to be wowed. Being a Black Edition it's easily overclocked though with my current PSU and the stock heatsink I didn't take it past 3.5GHz.

Given the price, the performance and the versatility with socket this is an excellent buy for anyone considering upgrading their CPU.

For the money, this processor really is the mut's nuts! My previous Athlon X64 X2 5900+ was bottlenecking my system terribly, but since I installed this and got it working, it's like I strapped a rocket to my PC. The only trouble is, I'm too cheap-ass to buy the proper motherboard, so I'm using it in an AM2+ socket. You need to be careful when you install the CPU like this, since many manufacturers have only recently updated their bios' to include AM3 processors. If you don't have the right bios version (not necessarily the latest), it throttles the CPU down to 800MHz rather than the 3.2GHz it's rated to. But that aside, I couldn't be more pleased. Recommended.