Clarify this for me, please

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Please define what you mean by "barely competitive". If you mean that it still loses a couple of benchmarks against a Q6600 then you are correct.

I mean that the Q6600 wins a significant majority of benchmarks against the 9850 in virtually every review. From Anandtechs, to Hardware.fr, Matbe, Hexus.net, Xbitlabs, etc.