Overclocking and power-draw
But we doubt enthusiasts will be swayed by numbers until the overclocking results are in. Coaxing out extra speed by adding 10 per cent to various lines and raising the core frequency until Prime95 failure set in, we managed to breach the 4GHz barrier with the chip cooled by a £15 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro v2.1 heatsink.
But the figures obtained thus far could equally apply to a 125W Phenom II X6 1055T. Where this chip should really shine is with respect to power consumption.
Pulling a few watts less than a 1090T chip at idle speeds, overclocking the 1055T chip puts it close to Core i7 9xx territory. Bear in mind that the numbers relate to a complete platform, including motherboard and RAM, obviously.
Here's where the payoff is, folks. Platform power-draw is over 30W lower than a 1090T's and only a touch higher than a quad-core 635's.
