Testseek.com have collected 32 expert reviews of the AMD Phenom X4 9850 2.5GHz Socket AM2+ and the average rating is 72%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Phenom X4 9850 2.5GHz Socket AM2+.
April 2008
(72%)
32 Reviews
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Abstract: We spent a few hours trying to overclock the latest, greatest Phenom X4 9850 black edition stock clocked to 2.5GHz and naturally we wanted to overclock it as high as we could. After half an hour we managed to clock it to 2.9GHz and eventually to 3.0...
The new Phenom X4 9850 processor is a very welcome newcomer to the processor segment and it could be responsible for a rebirth of interest in AMD CPUs. It is far from the fastest CPU was have put through the paces but with the B3 stepping AMD was abl...
AMD fixes the Phenom X4 processor with the release of the 50-series, but launches the Phenom X3 processor series with B2 steppings that have the same issuses as the old Phenoms. Strange huh? ...
The Phenom X4 9850 is AMDs most powerful desktop processor to date. Due to the processors higher clock speed and revised silicon that eliminates the TLB errata, the Phenom X4 9850 is measurably faster than all of AMDs previously released Phenom pr...
Unlocked multiplier allows overclocking; required motherboard offers minor gaming benefit; slightly faster MP3 encoding than Intel.
Poor overall bang for the buck at this price; faster competing chip from Intel is also overclockable.
AMDs new Phenom X4 9850 is overpriced and outclassed compared with its Intel-based quad-core competition. If PC vendors can use this chip to make cheap systems (as they did with older Phenoms), we might have nicer things to say, but as a DIY part at t...
The new AMD Phenom X4 9850 goes beyond the original Phenom series, offering improved performance and best of all, the ability to easily upgrade for existing users of the AMD Socket AM2 platform. Although not as powerful as some of the new Intel CPUs ...
AMD had to put off the launch of the Phenom processors for quite a while. In fact, they were quite a few months late which gave Intel establishment time with their Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad series of CPUs. As they were also hitting the retail marke...
