Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
If AMD was in the lead it would be 999-1499$ unlocked only.

Its just illusional different when your top CPU is a few 100$.
Very good point ... FX60, 62 were unlocked -- and as top dogs at their time were $1K cpus.. AMD produced the unlocked multi at the low price point for this very reason.

I remember when Intel and AMD locked up the multipliers, and there as a huge moan and groan from the enthusiast market. .... rightly so... then they realized it could be made into a selling point... hence, $1K CPUs with unlocked multies.