The conclusion of this review look biased to me
Because they are comparing it to E8500, and they are claiming that Phenom X3 has better performance per $ because it cost $100 cheaper, LOL !
Why they don't compare it to E8400 ? E8400 cost $100 cheaper than E8500 and the performance difference between E8400 and E8500 is very very small ?
Here is another review
bit-tech.net | AMD Phenom X3 8750
Since Phenom X3 8750 and E8400 cost the same, then comparing them is more fair than comparing Phenom X3 8750 to E8500
First: E8400 at stock speeds outperforms Phenom X3 8750 in all gaming benchmark. Actually E8400 at stock speeds outperformed X3 8750
overclocked to 3.0GHz in all gaming benchmark.
Second: Even though E8400 is a dual core, it performed better than a stock Phenom 8750 in some of the applications that utilize 3 cores !!
In addition to that E8400 consume much less power than Phenom X3
So, in other words
- E8400 performs better than Phenom 8750 in gaming even even if you overclock phenom 8750 to 3.0GHz
- E8400 smokes Phenom 8750 in application that can't advantage of more that two cores
- E8400 performs almost as good as Phenom 8750 in multi-threaded applications
- E8400 consume much less power and run cooler than Phenom 8750
And E8400 is already out, and you can get it now, while the slower 8750 is not out yet
Even the cheaper E8200 had better average performance than those tri-cores