IDC, I'd like a competitive CPU from AMD. No more, no less. Intel and AMD both make oranges. I'd like my oranges to be a 4 for a dollar, sweet, a little tart, and as big as a woman's fist.
I don't want my oranges huge, with lots of tasteless juice, at two for a dollar (AMD).
I don't want my oranges seperated into mixed bags of flavor slices, where you can buy either sweet, or tart, at equal prices... or buy the flavor I like for double (Intel).
If this thing was $300, it'd be competitive with the 4770 in lots of things, but it's also saddled with an ageing chipset.
Allow me my disappointment, bud, I'm not sixteen, and I don't make arbitrary blind decisions to buy Intel... I find no other alternative.
Daimon
There are more than just one variety of oranges as well.
The way you describe things you must not see any reason for the variety in cigars or top-shelf alcohol or various luxury brand vehicles.
Its all about getting from point A to point B for as little money as possible, right? Can't possibly be any good reason to enjoy the ride in the meantime.
As the price alone would seemingly make self-evident, the FX-9590 is clearly not priced for consideration by your typical mainstream "price/performance" budget conscious individual.
And if this were 2006 and we were talking about the then just released QX-6700 we'd be having the exact same discussion.
But the product is clearly intended to appeal to an extremely small volume of end-users who (1) have the right kind of disposable income, (2) are interested in spending it on an AMD FX-9590, and (3) probably buy equally expensive things for themselves just because they can.
AMD isn't trying to sell millions of these, they priced it exactly where they want to be in the supply/demand curve.
If there is no demand for the product then you can bet AMD would move the price point downwards. If there is demand for the product then that alone justifies AMD creating the product.
But all the negativity is simply weird. I can understand people liking a product and becoming a fan of it, that psychology is reasonable to me, but I can't grasp the psychology of why someone would waste their time despising a product (unless it is particularly destructive of people, such as drugs, cigarettes or misused firearms).
Unless "bash on AMD products" is in your top-10 list of "fun things I want to do with my day today" then why on earth would you spend time bashing on an AMD CPU at the expense of using that time to do any one of those other ten things you have on your top-10 fun things to do list?