CPU upgrade ASAP

I'm going to get the Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition quad core processor later this year when I have enough money. It's a very good CPU and is equivalent to a Intel Q9550 quad core in benchmarks. In gaming benchmarks it competes with the Intel Core i7 920 at stock speeds, provided there's a good GTX280 thrown in there. In synthetic benchmarks it's about 67% of the speed of the i7 920, but synthetic benchmarks don't really represent real world usage most of the time.

It's based on a 45nm fab, and is (therefor) a very good overclocker. People have got it to almost 6GHz I believe, using liquid helium cooling. People got it to over 5Ghz with dry ice.

2nd best of all, it will work in my (old) nforce 430 motherboard, due to AMD's very good backwards compatibility with it's CPUs.

But BEST OF ALL: it only costs £140 at ebuyer! Beat that for something that is 67% the speed of an i7.