Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
Frankly, I am as dissapointed as anyone. While I am not exclusively Intel, I do tend that way for various reasons... but the AMD showing is very discouraging. The benefit to all of us is when each of these guys are at their throats and AMDs showing of late has been very weak.

Regardless of being an AMD user or an exclusive Intel user or anything in between, the data we saw today is very disappointing to say the least.
Performance was in the range i expected, wished they where on par c2c.
I could not make myself a clear picture about power consumtion based on those reviews. Anandtech, Hexus, tom's hw only posted results of the 125W 9700, Legit measured at 2,6 GHz.
Hothardware's result look a little odd compared to the others.
[H] showed an 9600 with lower consumption in all areas, Matbe showed an 9500 with higher consumption than an q6600 under full load.
Can be that the lower clocked 9500 and 9600 requires less power than intel's q6600, at least if idle, of cause they are less powerfull.
Pricing in germany seems to be really attractive.