quick review of the Phenom X4 9100e

@ 2008/04/20
PCGH.de made a quick review of the Phenom X4 9100e, the first energy efficient quadcore processor from AMD with 65 watts TDP. It comes with 1.8 ghz and B2 stepping.


Comment from jmke @ 2008/04/21
E8500 is twice the price
Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/04/21
Cheapest quadcore you could find for desktop, runs at 1,8GHz.
AMD Phenom X4 9500 is being sold as low as 110€, the 9100 will easily go sub 100€.

On the other hand, it is beaten by dual core Intel E8500 in nearly all tests. I wonder what overclocking headroom there is to be found in these, if they can reach 2,6GHz (which is no problem for the 9850) consider yourself having a überfast quad core computer at low-end price. Intel doesn't offer cheap quads and sub-100€ best I could find was E4600 (2,4GHz; 200MHz FSB). The E4600 will never overclock high enough to compete with the 9100 running at 2,6GHz, in multithreaded apps that is. Very interesting offerings from AMD.