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Overclocked Phenom II CPU
Excellent graphics performance
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Slightly pricier PCs have greater non-gaming speed

Maingear Dash Desktop PC Review

by David Murphy, PC World

- True to its style of building tricked-out systems, Maingear has launched its first foray into AMD's Phenom II architecture: a souped-up, overclocked machine dubbed the Dash. Since the capacity for overclocking is a large component of AMD's Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition processor, we were quite curious to see how an overpowered system would fare against PCs based on Intel's Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Core i7 processors. The Dash holds its own against most tested value PCs (rightly so, as its $1499 price is at the top end of the category), but struggles against most of the desktops in our Top 10 Power PCs chart, some of which cost only a few hundred dollars more.

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AMD Launches Phenom II CPU, Its Fastest Yet Initial PC World testing finds that the best part of Phenom II is its price. But there's still room to grow with AMD's overclockable, sleeping Dragon.

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