Hello! ^_^ Over a year has gone by since this post has opened, (sorry to open old threads :3) yet no one has motioned anything about One other contributing factor... the motherboard.. is it AM2+,AM3 or AM3+, (all will run the Phenom II X4's but the AM3+ has a different Chipset,some board have separated power planes to your CPU allowing for better 'Graphics', giving better load balance between your cpu & gpu (Working some what, like the newer APUs)... that would be just ONE factor... another is, what is the Northbridge on your motherboard???... I would be very, VERY interested as to what motherboard people are running whom say it Wont work ^_^ (you totally CAN put a High-pro, fully Turbo injected boxer four engine, into a 1970's VW bug ^_^, BUT!!!, you'll Never get the full output of the motor to the ground/asphalt because it "Bottlenecks" with the max performance of the ("stock")Transmission, axels, wheel bearings, tires, suspension, as well as other parts that would effect the FULL potential power the motor has to give. with this said, I built my machine when the Phenom II was so new, I still LAUGH/Cry at the price I paid for it... I have NEVER had a problem Running ANY modern games on them at all (Had to update my mother board from a slooooow 790N.B. & Updated my Graphics cards twice since 2009, I run my Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition with a single 4g Radeon card, and have run COD Ghosts, Thief, Bio shock Inf., BattleField 4.... so on & so forth ^_^... Granted, there ARE indeed MUCH better prossesors out there beside the AMD Phenom II X4, but as far as Modern Gaming goes, in short.. your fine.... (the XBone & PS4 both run on 2 "Jaguar" MOBILE-CPUs from AMD (IMHO nothing more than Glorified Mobile APU's ^_^, then SURE as SHOOTIN' your rig is fine for sometime to come. even some duo-core systems will STILL work Superb for gaming rigs, given the components play well together ^_~ (most likely too late by now ^_^ but ,Please, if anyone has some benchmarks proving the Phenom II x4 9xx is an obsolete processor for Gaming rigs, I would Sure love to see them numbers! ^_^)