I wasn't done there, though. As you may know from this page of our Phenom review, among other sources, the Phenom architecture's memory access latency and overall performance is affected quite a bit by the speed of the chip's L3 cache. That cache runs at the speed of the chip's north bridge, not the CPU core clock, so there's some real performance potential hiding in the Phenom's north bridge clock. With just a little coaxing, I was able to get our Black Edition north bridge stable at 2.2GHz, or 400MHz above stock.

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