Here is our 8750 at its stock 2.4GHz clock speed with the HT link at 1.8GHz.

AMD's Phenoms definitely aren't the overclockers that Intel's Core 2 Quads have been, though most Intel Quads stop at around 3-3.2GHz and are difficult to push farther. AMD's Phenom tops out around 2.8-2.9GHz with the chips they've released so far. Will one less core help push Phenom further?

Apparently not. Another 400Mhz overclock which isn't bad but one less core appears to not make any difference when it comes to Phenom overclocking. 2.82GHz was the farther we could reach stable giving us a 420MHz overclock which isn't bad at all but AMD will need to ramp up the clock speeds significantly to compete with Intel, something we're unlikely to see until 45nm cores are released. We bumped up the voltage to 1.35v in the BIOS but more voltage did not solve the problem with reaching higher clockspeeds with the Phenom 8750, something similar we've found with the 9x50 series.

Now let's move onto benchmarks.