Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
yeah the 9850 is nice... cheaper than a q6600 and only slightly slower
if your ocing... forget about it... but otherwise, a nice quadcore...
Cheaper? You see the 9850 for less than $219?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115017

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103249

Try slower and more expensive. Also poorer overclocking and higher power consumption. How is this better than Prescott?


Quote Originally Posted by perkam View Post
Please stick to the topic and the first post.

The Phenom is a Work in Progress from AMD (the TLB issue proved that) and, as per the content of this thread, gains a slight advantage over previous benchmarks, hence the thread.

Think of it this way, good news is rare for AMD, hence this is rare news :p Every AMD thread in XS News doesn't need members to brand the entire Phenom line useless over and over again. Thankfully we have that vacancies for doing that filled 200 times over.

Perkam
New life? More like still stone dead. There is no good news here for AMD. Yes, Phenom is a work in progress, and Intel's processors are not? You post on an overclocking website a chart that shows the top bin max overclock Phenom that just came out getting crushed by 40% vs a bottom bin Ye Olde Kentsfield overclock and want people to "stick to the topic" of all the "new life" in Phenom?? What is this, AMDZone?