Quote Originally Posted by Tomasis View Post
Rollo, please stop the rant!

First make clear what market segment the cpu is made for. Obviously it is not for ordinary Joe with normal budget as you like to make comparisons in your last 100 posts.

That cpu wont make any difference in the big picture. Mostly show off and those who buy Alienware, dont give FYVK for price difference and would like to pick another brand than Intel.

Everything doesnt has to be done in logical, pragmatic way.

Even if my Cpu and GPU is slower than yours, I still dont give FVCK!! I dont suffer of self affirmation having the best, latest.
The CPU doesn't makes a difference in the big picture?

These are gonna be sold only to OEM initially with companies like Alienware. And people who buy alienware systems are mostly gamers.

Considering the person is likely going to get a multi GPU systems, getting this chip is going to cause a massive difference in what you get out of a multigpu system.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-fx-8...e/17494.html/2

This chip even at 4.8ghz is going to get hammered like bull dozer, even at 4.7-5.0 ghz.

This chip shows overwhelming ignorance on AMD's part. And hypocrisy from AMD fans and Nvidia and Intel criticizers alike.

Nvidia and Intel have often been bagged on because there chips are too expensive. However at the very least, they were market leaders and each time they did it, they bought a chip that was different than their regular product line silicon wise.

Titan particularly was harshed out on its 1000 dollar pricing(which pretty much everyone, even rollo criticized the pricing), but atleast it brought a 30+% lead over the competition and this lead held up or grew when the cards(including its competition) were overclocked. It also contained a new chip which was more expensive than anything else to make, finally brought uncapped dual precision, double the memory configuration and had absolutely no competition.

Yet everyone hammered on it.

Now lets look at this chip. Likely ties a $340 4770k, shares the same silicon as a 150 dollar processor and when its competition all shows up at max clocks this thing will almost lost every single benchmarks, plus it gets destroyed in multigpu performance.

Don't you think max performance at max overclocks and multi GPU performance are among the most important aspect when it comes to an enthusiast system. When it loses out on both of those and doesn't bring any value because of its bad pricing, its simply a bad product.

If your going to charge this much bring the performance to match it up.

Otherwise your simply making a product for the very ignorant. Basically for the customer that doesn't do any research before hand and buy looking purely at clock speed.

One more consequence of such moves from AMD is it allows Intel to price their cards higher. Depending on if this makes it to retail, Intel finally has a valid excuse to raise the price of their extreme edition processors. That being, the only competition they had before was themselves and they had to price everything basicaly against there own prices, the extreme editions were poor value. Now, they have these 9590s that are 920 dollars. Now its easy for them to raise the price because the extreme editions look like good values next to that processor.

The same thing happened to nvidia and the gtx 6xx and gtx 7xx series.