Clarify this for me, please

[keithlm]

It's not as simple as that I am afraid.
9850 beats the q6600 in some benchmarks as well, and since this topic is about smoothness and a possible cause in the memory bandwidth systems of these cpu's, I would say that in this field, the 9850 indeed beats the q6600.

Anyone remembers what popular and reputable review site wrote a review about the 9850 where they had accidently run all of the review tests using a bios that had the TLB fix enabled by default?

(And they later did an update with the TLB fix disabled and the results were different... resulting in a very poor showing for the Q6600? Or it might have been the Q9300.) Of course by the time they did the update... the original incorrect results were being thrown all over the internet as an example of how bad the 9850 chip runs... so the "correct" results rarely got noticed.)