The AMD Phenom faced a fairly rocky start, but the guys in green are
trucking forward and have started releasing new processors into the
wild. These new chips are of a different stepping, and feature fixes
for many of the identified issues. Today were are looking at such a
processor, checking to see if these early problems have been truly been
fixed.

http://www.futurelooks.com/amd-pheno...on-cpu-review/