The majority of these Phenom users are very happy judging by these customer reviews.  Could it be that evil Intel is paying for negative reviews? Once AMD release the higher clocked Phenoms on the B3 stepping, Intel are in big trouble I believe.
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] lse&Page=1
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] -AM&tool=3
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] -AM&tool=3
 
 Phenom for Real native Quad Core! AMD4Life!

. o O (Evil will always triumph because good is dumb..)

Dude, give it up.  I'm an AMD fan, but I don't resort to these kinds of things.  Most reviews on those sites are going to be positive unless the processor is a completely unstable piece of junk or doesn't work.

quoting newegg? thats a pretty low standard.

Well, for a budget quad-core system they are working well. I just built a Phenom system last week for some video work and testing. It is running very well.  
 
Specs:
ASUS 690G Motherboard
Phenom 9500
XFX 8800GST 320
2GB of A-DATA DDR2 800
Antec earthwatts 430
 
At all stock settings with anti-virus going it scored 10k in 3DMark06. I thought that was great for stock settings. The CPU Marks were right near 4000.

from a 6000+ to a phenom adds 5000 points to 3dmarko6?

 
gee, this seems like unbiased and credible evidence to support the conclusion that AMD is beating Intel and Intel is paying people to go on random online stores to criticize AMD's processors.  

My 3600+ got ~2000 CPU Marks at 2.6Ghz. Phenom is getting ~4000 at 2.2 for me. Same GPU, different motherboard/chipsets though.

Anyone who takes shopping site reviews seriously generally gets what they deserve. In this case, inferior, defective tech.

Thundy, Thundy, Thundy. As Reagan told Gorbachev... There you go again.  
 
And BTW, I'm now getting concerned about Baron. This is the first day back at work for everyone so I expected to hear some great defence about K10s vast supereority. Where are ya Baron????

 
EPS 1.05  
Volume 63,492,016  
Avg. Daily Volume 60,421,755  
Market Value $133,253,130,000  
Shares Outstanding 5,847,000,000  
 
I disagree.

Using NewEgg feedback as a source, FAIL.

And that -4 next to AMD's EPS is not good.
 
AMD
EPS -4  
Volume 16,834,023  
Avg. Daily Volume 24,738,265  
Market Value $3,477,166,440  
Shares Outstanding 554,572,000
 
More:
Advanced Micro Devices Inc sets a new 52-week low  
09:44 a.m.  01/04/2008  Provided By Wall Street On Demand  
 
 
Advanced Micro Devices Inc crossed below its 52-week low of $6.75 on 9:40 AM ET on January 04, 2008.  

 
These are just evil lies by the double cheeseburger paid Intel pumper.  Do not listen to his evilness!

 
While I take user reviews like these with a grain of salt, the initial reports about the TLB bug and Phenom's poor performance is, like most things in this forum, overhyped and blown out of proportion. And, as with most things, the truth comes out in time. I for one am not surprised that the majority of Phenom owners who are not into virtualization are having a positive experience with a noticeable performance increase over previous gen AM2 procs.
 
The Intel fanboys can chirp and cluck all they want, but less than $200USD for a quad core is hard for any real enthusiast to not look twice.
 

Spoken like a genuine troll.

The biggest question is "Who is buying mainstrean computers and how many are sold?"  NOT so much who is buying high end computers.  Mainstream is where the bulk of the money is made, just like in video cards.    Yes I understand how owning the High-end supports sales in the middle but the middle is more price concious, even $50 can make or break a sale easily.

Ahh yes, lets read some of those reviews, shall we?
 
Mr BLunTeD gave a five star rating

 
Amazing! Mr AMD4Ever has had his Phenom for over 1 whole year!!
 

 
Hmmm, Mr BlackPanther  gave fives stars while noting a "bug with this CPU"....doesnt mention actually owning one though....interesting

 
 
Tim from NJ doesnt own his yet, but gave it 5 stars anyway

 
Serge84, calling Serge84, do you or do you not own one? Hmmm, well this clearly isnt a review of something he owns, but he gave it 5 stars just for good measure.

 
Hmmmm, dont see Mr "We Stand by AMD" actually talking about a product he owns, but that dosnt syop him from giving it 5 stars anyway

 
Well, ol' Jay5435 wasnt giving a review of a product he owns, just responding to BlackPanther, but he gave it 5 stars anyway

 
alex clearly owns one -----NOT, but hey, while asking a question, why not throw in a five star rating for good measure

 
 
OK, at this point, Im bored reading through the non reviews from non owner corporate Phanboys.
Of 82 people who gave 5 star reviews, 49 were not verifed as having purchased the product. Of those 33 who were verified ownership (they actually bought the product from newegg) , ownership times were:
less than one day: 6
one day to one week: 13
one week to one month 13
one month to one year 1
 
The negative reviews are mostly from Intel phanboy non owners
 
9 inch, you're treading the misreprestation line again. You dont care, but dont be suprised when I fix your problem. This post, like your others is phanboy-flame crap. I dont normally care, as its fun to watch you present bogus data and get mercilessly pwned regardless of who you may or may not be shilling for, but this one misrepresents-misrepresented opinions. Im not anywhere near as forgiving or patient as Jake is....so stick to your Intel is evil schtick, and your out of date or incomplete information you willl have to find a new proxy.
 
turpit