What can I say about this processor... It is just simply wonderful. I am running it right now, overclocked at 3.6GHz and not a single problem with it! AMD is pretty well known with the ease of overlclocking their processors anyways. I work with some heavy 3d rendering in the fairly well known program Blender. This thing does the trick with rendering scenes, ambient occlusion, and just about everything! Where I might try to render my AO maps at 30 samples at a 1024 by 1024 resolution, it does it in a snap compared to my old AMD Athlon 64 x2. Same thing with photoshop too. This baby will run any filter, samples, and so forth that you throw at it with just about any type of rendering software.

I wouldn't really recommend this for the average user but more for the hardcore gamer or a person in extreme need of something faster to suit their occupation.