AMD has had a rocky start to its latest architectural update. K10 has had its major downs, suffering the TLB bug in the B1 and B2 stepping cores. When they were first introduced to market, they were the plague CPU; as in, every one avoided them like the plague! - It took many months for AMD to write this problem out, but B3 promised a fix and eventually delivered. Phenom really didn’t deliver what AMD was hoping, in fact it was clock for clock well behind the 8 ball compared to Intel’s Core 2 Duo