Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

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It is also interesting to see that the reviews made in English differ some with reviews in other languages. It seems that German sites are much more positive to AMD compared to US sites.

Sorry i cant share your opinion. German reviewers are not more or less positive then US Sites. Maybe we count more on Price/Performance and we dont go with the attitude that a 5 % Performance penalty makes the different between the most sucking piece of hardware and the world best super duper silicon you can get. Everything else is the same.

But i found out that some german software actually does very good with the Phenom compared to an Intel rig especially the Nero Suite (Video Encoding).

And at least some forum members (in different forums) still think there is a irregular penalty for AMD processors due the intel compiler in some benchmark and software cases.

@Jack

Just wanted to remember you clarifying the numbers given from overclobersclub with your test systems

http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...l_q9450/12.htm
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...l_q9450/14.htm
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...el_q9450/8.htm