more like bringing an 8-bladed knife to a gun fight...
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).
Very much on point; heavy, clumsy, and inefficient. Goodluck with that!more like bringing an 8-bladed knife to a gun fight...
It was. The difference with the FX 9590 here was everybody was expecting an overpriced, power-guzzling turd and that's what they got.
Kitguru's benchmark suite is horrible btw. Gaming performance looks good vs the 4.8 GHz 3960X. If it wasn't for the ridiculous price it would probably have been well received in most sites.
Something similar happened when AMD tried to change their price policy in the GPU market. Instead of matching Nvidia pricing with the 7000 series, they placed the SKUs above Nvidia price brackets. Despite being the fastest card, people looked at AMD line up and didn't see value there. As a result, AMD lost share in desktop GPUs.
This is all happening at the same time your fantasy scenario of people running away from the "overpriced" 7970 was supposed to be occurring.The company had a 4% increase in shipments of discrete GPUs over last quarter, and an 8% gain in notebook discrete GPUs
You have to wait until Q3 2012 until Nvidia makes any gains (something to do with them having new cards vs AMD's 6-month old cards maybe?). Since that point, AMD has continued to gain more share. Even in Q1 this year the 7-series regained market share on Nvidia - http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/add-in-board-market-up-in-q1-amd-gains-market-share/...and AMD saw gains in the discrete desktop category (2.5%).
more like bringing an 8-bladed knife to a gun fight...
AMD makes the P4EE look good. This is the biggest turd of a CPU released sofar in history at its pricepoint.
Nobody with a right mind would buy this product.
The most interesting part of the original article for me was that AMD aren't sending out review samples. Maybe that's their secret business plan? Convince all the tech sites to shell out for one for testing, make a quick $50k on some overclocked 8350s
The most interesting part of the original article for me was that AMD aren't sending out review samples. Maybe that's their secret business plan? Convince all the tech sites to shell out for one for testing, make a quick $50k on some overclocked 8350s
Where are the default frequency reviews ???
The system is actually pretty quick in this benchmark, completing the encode in less than 9 minutes. It still can’t manage to match the fastest Intel Core i7 systems however.
Kitguru's benchmark suite is horrible btw. Gaming performance looks good vs the 4.8 GHz 3960X. If it wasn't for the ridiculous price it would probably have been well received in most sites.
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.
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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.
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Where are the default frequency reviews ???
It appears that the mb by default set the speed to 4.0 20x. Then they found out it wouldn't turbo and would throttle so they tweaked the settings to simulate always on turbo speed at 5Ghz which is fair.
Would you supply Lhe for the FX 9590 overclock? Thought so!If the motherboard was not working correctly they should have tried a different model. I want to see default frequency benchmarks for all the CPUs and then OC results, since this is a CPU review they should of benchmark more applications.
What I was thinking as I looked at those charts: "OMG make it stop... the pain, i cant stand the pain." This company is in serious need of a headstone.
Would you supply Lhe for the FX 9590 overclock? Thought so!