Well my 9850BE was pants & i have gone back to my 6400+BE.
Got my 9850BE upto 2800-2900 but needed 1.6 Vcore and my PSU would shut down if i tried to give it more juice.

The 9850BE would not do more than 2600 on stock Vcore 1.3 & all the cores seemed to be evenly matched when using AOD.