Sorry AMD... I don't care anymore. Stick with the low-end, and you'll be fine... the FX chips are way over-priced and are a slight upgrade to some PII-X4 chips. Hope you fired the engineers who decided that going net-burst and faking your cores were the way to go.
Your X8 core chips are STILL 4 CORE. Proof is when your OLD X4 core Chips is faster than your new "8 core" chips that costs $150 more!?! When you bring out a NEW and IMPROVED product, it cannot - in anyway, be slower than your previous product. The FX/BD chip... sometimes hangs with the i5-2500, but most of the time its not even close... and about 25% of the time, its slower than a PII-X4.
That means its a crappy product that NOBODY can say for certain "its a faster chip than XYZ". You made a chip that is about 2 years late that EATS more power and creates more HEAT than the competition and worse... it COSTS MORE?!
Just checked Newegg: FX8150 = $270 vs I5 2500K = $230 (Locally its $180 - go figure, and $150 for the i5-2400) Only an idiot or someone who likes to run their PC at 4~5Ghz would build a new high-end system with an FX chip.
And in the next few months, the replacement of Sandy Bridge hits the market... pulling further from BD. This means, the FX8150 should be a $125 CPU... at the very most. Then YOU are competitive... for now and if you did that today.
The A-series of CPUs are a good value for the low-end, but are becoming too-over-priced as the i5's come down in price. I'd take a 4 core A-chip over an i3 or lower for a budget system. Calling Unlocked AMD-A 8X "K" chips is lame and shows complete lack of originality or talent on part of your company. Anyone WHO knows what an intel K chip is, will already KNOW that nothing in AMD's inventory cannot and will not compete in performance.
AMD motherboard chipsets is still among the best. Reliable, feature-rich. But the odd-ball thing is that the low-end A-CPUs get the more advanced chipset with native USB 3.0, while you have nothing for the FX chips. And of course these are not pin-compatible.
From what I know... a new socket is coming out that will handle the new versions of the A and FX chips. Which is needed as you lock people into two dying socket platforms. But SERIOUSLY, when you came out with Socket FM1, it should have ALREADY be more advanced and ready for bulldozer. Therefore not screwing your customers. And of course have 1-2 Socket AM3 BD chips for upgrades. This is what you have done in the past. Like making the new AM2 CPU line, but toss a few AM1 compatible CPUs for upgrading.
AMD... I don't think you'll do anything other than punch yourself in the face, again.
PS: At least you guys are doing good with the graphics division.
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