Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
Back in that day, you were paying for the unlocked multiplier and you had the fastest performing CPU on the market by a long shot. Your only getting the unlocked multiplier here, but that incentive isn't really there when their fx 8320 has the same feature but only costs 150 dollars.

The only market for these chips is Hardcore AMD fans or the ignorant who buy processors based on frequency. Not having the highest performance really kills this thing as well as the unlocked multiplier feature/silicon being found on their vastly cheaper processors.
Who is was buying a QX9770 for a day to day rig? Benchmarkers were the only people buying those processors. Just like the people selling binned 3770k cpus on the forums for big money.

I agree that the market will be much smaller for an FX cpu but there will be people willing to pay the extra money to throw one of these chips under ln2.

This will probably be like the Phenom 2 Twkr. I don't think that they're expecting to move huge volumes of this sku.