I am sure the Phenom 9950 and 9350e were released in 2008.

The latter was definitaly not good at all, the first was only able to perform as well as a Q6600 at stock frequency.

Far from being an Nvidia fan, I still dont consider the GTX 200's to be a let down. ATI maybe the better buy right now, but that doesnt make the Nvidia cards bad.

As I was an AMD fan for years, I am still disappointed by their CPUs.