september 23 2010 review by anandtech

The Phenom II X4 970 BE, a 3.5GHz Quad-Core, ships with all cache enabled, being 6MB L3 and 2MB total L2. This is still a Deneb so you get no turbo boost support, but you do get a great value.

Conclusion:

This processor can be pretty close to the Intel Core i5 760. The Intel CPU is faster in games and a few applications , while AMD was competitive in our encoding test and Cinebench.

Test Setup:

• Mainboard : ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 (AMD 890GX)
• Memory : Corsair DDR3-1333

Benchmarks:

Photoshp CS4, 3DS MAX 9, PAR2 Multithreaded Archive Recovery, 7zip, Sonar 8 Audio Mixing, Starcraft II and some other games.Cinebench, SYSmark 2007, x264 HD.

Overclocking:

With the stock cooler the Phenom II X4 970 was OCed @ 4.1GHz.