“Add in the X3 720's fairly tame power consumption, its apparently excellent overclocking proposition,
and the fact that—regardless of memory type—the Phenom II has a superior system architecture to
the Core 2, and the E8400 starts to look rather weak by comparison. The Phenom II X3 720 is our
new favorite among mid-range PC processors. "
-- AMD’s Socket AM3 Phenom II Processors
Scott Wasson, Tech Report, February 2009