Quote Originally Posted by dirtyd View Post
Not necessarily. Intel's high end has always been expensive, even when they were getting beaten by the original FX their high-end chips were still expensive, and people still bought them.



What do you think matters more to AMD: OEM's who order in the thousands, or a tiny sliver of enthusiasts who moan about 10% in a benchmark? The only OEM's ordering high-end parts are specialist custom builders who would be lucky to sell 1,000 units a year. It's not "rather quite large", it absolutely pales in comparison.
You really don't think OEMs like Dell (Alienware as well) won't offer these CPUs as options for upgrades?