[FancyFane]

The Phenom II will always have a special place in my heart being the CPU of choice in my first CPU build in 2011. It's wild to see it's still being compared to modern CPUs, and winning the against the competition in select benchmarks.

[ahartmetz]

I completely skipped the FX disaster / Intel dominance phase by holding on to a Phenom II X6. At the time, my upgrade policy was "when twice the performance is available for the same price as the old part". That never quite happened with Intel's 4 core parts.

[flyinghamster]

One of my old builds was a Phenom II X2 550 Black, where I found that I could either overclock it, or unlock two more cores, but not both. I chose the cores, and it ran that way for a long time. That was one of the best bang-for-the-buck deals I ever ran into for a CPU.