price comparison, MC (in-store only) july prices
i7 920, $200
C2Quad 9550, $169
C2Quad 8200, $139

Comparing the Phenom 9150e it with a E8400 is not an apt comparison. the E8400 (list at $167) was never a good deal in the first place. (it is also significantly slower, not the same performance than a E8400 dualcore) For $200, you can get the nahelam quad core i7 920 at microcenter. (definitely the fastest CPU to get). If you don't have a microcenter, you can get a core2quad for around $167, non-sale price (a little cheaper when it's on sale), it's almost twice as fast as an E8400.

edit-someone ask me for a link for i7 920 from MC (B&M only, $200 price good till end of july i think) http://www.microcenter.com/single...id=0302727

This is definitely not a price mistake, first generation Phenoms were really slow! The review on passmark is terribly misleading, this is not as fast as a E8400. (Low 512Kb L2 cache per core [4 cores], means performance will suffer when running lots of multiple applications simultaneously, which is the reason to get quad core in the first place, to get smooth multi-tasking). Single threaded performance will run at about half the speed of an E8400. (2 core E8400/4 core 9150e=0.5 the speed of E8400 per core.)

check out tomshardware for benchmark on the 9150e and see how it performs with other processor with different types of applications. http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...0,820.html
(For example, running World in Conflict, 9150e gets 77fps, E8400 gets 131fps, everything being equal, just the processor limiting the fps) -j_vinnie


Passmark [cpubenchmark.net] showed that this processor is as fast as a Intel Wolfdale E8400 but it is half in price. (In all fairness, this chip can outperform an E8400 in tests the scale well to multiple cores to take advantage of 4 cores over the E8400's 2 cores. However it would be absolutely crushed by the E8400 in games, where you are only using 1-2 cores so you want them to be as fast as possible. Check the attached image to see the E8400 crush a Phenom 9750 that is clocked 33% higher than this chip.) This is not a TC, I believe this to be a really good deal in performance per watt per dollar, but not for a desktop PC.

And I still think this is a NewEgg price mistake!!!
Amazon [amazon.com] sells this same CPU for $192.
Buy.com [buy.com] sells this same CPU for $181.49.


The reason that passmark ranks the X4 CPU as fast as the E8400 (dual core) is purely based on the number of calculations from ALL cores that can be accomplished per second, however, PER CORE, E8400 will destroy the X4 because of its faster speed. This means if you aren't fully utilizing all 4 cores of the X4 (and very rarely you will use all 4 cores unless you run encoding, databases, massive multi-threaded calculation programs, or lots of ACTIVE background processes), then it wont matter if it is a quad core CPU, it will still be much slower than the E8400.

Brand AMD Processors Type Desktop
Series Phenom X4 Model HD9150ODGHBOX
CPU Socket Type Socket AM2+
Multi-Core Quad-Core
Name Phenom 9150E
Operating Frequency 1.8GHz Hyper Transports 3200MHz
L2 Cache 4 x 512KB L3 Cache 2MB
Manufacturing Tech 65 nm
64 bit Support Yes
Hyper-Transport Support Yes Virtualization Technology Support Yes
Multimedia Instruction MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a,3DNOW! Professional
Voltage 1.0V-1.125V Thermal Design Power 65W
Cooling Device Heatsink and Fan included

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