On Tuesday, April 23, AMD launched their latest Phenom, the X3 series ... Our tests of the 2.5 GHz X4 9850 in the same motherboard yielded a 4333 and the 2.5 GHz dual-core 4850e attained a ...

The operating system was Microsoft Vista with Service Pack 1 installed. First we set up AMD's 9850 in a Gigabyte MA790FX-DQ6 motherboard and ran Primate Labs' Geekbench 2 benchmarking software.