Anand wrote a few years ago that there are no bad products, only bad prices.
There are bad products. Those are generally "bad surprise" products. Since people often enjoy bad car analogies here are decent car examples: The Pinto with its exploding gas tank, the Vega with its rust and engine trouble, and the 80s GM diesels made from gasoline engines.
All are examples of bad products. Surprise = exploding gas tank. Surprise = failing engine and rust in one year. Surprise = gasoline engine not strong enough to handle diesel fuel.
FX chips have three surprises. The first is the 9000 series (especially 9590) with most boards, which are too weak to handle their power draw. The second is the low single-thread performance even in the 9590. The third is that they only have four floating point units instead of eight. A possible surprise is purchasing a low-grade board that can't even handle an 8350 but that's the fault of board makers.
wiki said:
Fisher's rustproofing was faulty. Failure to penetrate a gap between front fenders and cowl allowed moist debris and salt to rust the untreated steel, and trapped air prevented coating inside the tops of the front fenders, which on early Vegas had no protective liners. The finance department had rejected liners as they would have added a $2.28 unit cost. Rust also damaged the rocker panels and door bottoms, the area beneath the windshield, and the body above the rockers. It sometimes seized the front suspension cam bolts, preventing alignment work, necessitating removal with a cutting torch and replacement by all-new parts.
When a product has been nickle and dimed to the point of hidden shoddiness then it qualifies as a bad product. Really, products should be made well instead of being made to sucker people.
Only the 9000 series qualify as bad products in my view. I think the 8320E from Microcenter is quite a good product, considering its price, if you fit the profile for it. Gaming-specific builds should stick with something like the 5675C, though. You really should pay more for the efficiency. I bought mine mainly for video compression although it works well enough as a general-purpose processor at 4.4 GHz. I'm running Windows 10.