my board can't support phenoms... yea it's crippled yo. but even if it did, i won't feel comfortable putting a phenom chip into it. Overclocking wise, i say it sucks. Temperature wise while overclocking is even worse. Also it's only 1ghz on the HT bus, so that may cripple a phenom's performance. i already have motherboard and cpu choice in mind for each platform, AMD or Intel. I'm just patiently waiting on, well cash... but other things i have to see about come first to this upgrade. Still looking at getting a new monitor, and i definitely wanna get a new chassis. But all in due time my friend. I surely won't need a graphics card anytime soon i can tell you that... XD (unless this one craps out).