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To: Dan3 who wrote (257577)	12/27/2008 12:02:02 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Dan, For what it's worth, the Processor score stayed at 5.9 It doesn't go higher than 5.9. but the Graphics performance score went from 4 to 4.1 as I moved from 3ghz to 3.3 and 3.5ghz and then to 4.2 when I went up to 3.6ghz (using the on-board 790g "HD3200" video). It may be because you provided it with more memory bandwidth from the CPU. BTW, I will see what the major review sites (like Anand) say about Phenom II. I might get it, as a relatively cheap upgrade of my system. I am tempted by Nehalem. 3 arguments against are 1. lack of availability of 4 GB DIMMs, which are now available in DDR2, but not yet in DDR3 2. obviously spending a LOT more money 3. I am not sure if my licenses of OEM versions of XP and Vista 64 (both on the same PC) would survive an upgrade of this scale. Does anyone have experience in this area? (re-activating OEM versions after mobo + CPU upgrades) Joe