AMD Phenom 9500 184.99

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Price is 189.99 with free shipping.
Use promo code: EMCABACBD to get an extra 5.00 off.
Total drops to 184.99 affter promo code.

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[kidsafe]

Almost comical to see how quickly Phenom prices are dropping. They only dropped this CPU to $190 yesterday, and the 9600 to $240... Despite the TLB bugaboo, it's hard to argue with the performance per dollar of the Phenom...and it'll only get better.

 

[Nessism]

I?m running a 9500 in an ECS A700M-A motherboard, purchased from Fry?s for $220. System runs great. Been doing some video editing and the quad absolutely rips. Stock heatsink is pretty basic but works well enough (running my old XP120 though since it carried over from my old system).

Not sure under what situations the TLB bug will show up, so far I haven?t experienced any stability issues. Read something to the effect that it will only show up when all four cores are running at 100% load ? but even when encoding (using Pinnacle 9.4) the cores don?t run anywhere near full load.

At any rate, I?m happy. I don?t need a power hungry cpu sucking down juice all the time, and this system is running nice and stable.

Thumbs up from this user!

 

[nycdude]

Nice cpu for price to perfomance ratio

 

[daveybrat]

Geez, quads are sure getting cheap

 

[Lurker1]

Awesome - looking into it, this makes waiting for the next iteration much harder.

 

[gevorg]

Nice! 30% cheaper than Q6600, but only ~10-15% slower.

Waiting on Intel's response.

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Nessism
I?m running a 9500 in an ECS A700M-A motherboard, purchased from Fry?s for $220. System runs great. Been doing some video editing and the quad absolutely rips. Stock heatsink is pretty basic but works well enough (running my old XP120 though since it carried over from my old system).

Not sure under what situations the TLB bug will show up, so far I haven?t experienced any stability issues. Read something to the effect that it will only show up when all four cores are running at 100% load ? but even when encoding (using Pinnacle 9.4) the cores don?t run anywhere near full load.

At any rate, I?m happy. I don?t need a power hungry cpu sucking down juice all the time, and this system is running nice a stable.

Thumbs up from this user!

I'm running the 9500 with an Asus M3A32 MVP Deluxe/wifi mb. I've just been running seti 247 almost 3 weeks now... I've had one lockup at the 9 day mark but everything has been fine since then.

 

[kidsafe]

Originally posted by: gevorg
Nice! 30% cheaper than Q6600, but only ~10-15% slower.

Waiting on Intel's response.

Well the thing is the Q6600 OCs to 3.0-3.2GHz without a hitch while the Phenoms look like they go to 2.5-2.7GHz in most cases.

I'd also be interested in Intel's response. The plan AFAIK is to launch the following in March:

Q9300 (2.5GHz / 6MB) - $266
Q9450 (2.66GHz / 12MB) - $316
Q9550 (2.83GHz / 12MB) - $530
QX9650 (3.0GHz / 12MB) - $999 already launched

IMO the Q9550 should be dropped and each chip should be shifted to the price of the par directly below it. So we'd end up seeing the Q9450 for $280 retail, the QX9650 for $540 retail, and the Q9300 debuting around $210 retail.