The title "conquer mainstream" is misleading. Even in multi threaded benchies, the X3 still lost to new Intel dual cores. 3 slow X3 cores can't match 2 faster Intel cores. Everyone who saw those benchmarks had one conclusion, X3 sucks. Sad really... how will AMD price these salvaged silicon?

Those strange letters on Asus's comp are not cyrillic. They are extension to latin letters that some use. This is cyrillic : абвгдђежз...

Well the link to phenom X3 is dead.. It gave me 404 error... please check.. 

Alex

http://en.expreview.com/2008/03/31/core-2-duo-e7300-vs-phenom-x3-8600-who-wins/