http://www.anandtech.com/show/1975
The pentium 4 extreme edition just used a little more energy than a athlon 64.
This uses 100watts more than an intel model which is close to double and will likely be the biggest power hog for a desktop processor ever.
Also the pentium 4 could still be cooled with a rather conventional cooler. This things needs beyond air cooling and a special motherboards.
Most importantly the pentium 4 was panned for being a bad processor. Basically everyone that was an enthusiast had a Fx processor back in the day in their signature, not a pentium 4 extreme edition. People still use it as the benchmark for bad power consumption and heat. Yet AMD is knowingly doing the same thing not learning from Intels mistakes.
The power consumption of this fx 9590 makes pentium 4 extreme edition seem like a power sipper.
I don't even see this fx 9590 being for a regular the enthusiast market or bragging rights as Informal puts it. Overclock any of Intel's 220 dollars and up processor to the max and the fx 9590 to the max(under anything short of liquid helium) and the Intel has a good chance to come out on top with their 220 dollar processors and their 300 dollars and up processors for sure come out on top.
Any one that has this processor in their system is basically giving AMD charity money. Paying a crazy amount for inferior performance, monster heat and power consumption and low overclockability under most cooling.
A geforce titan or i7 3970x are for bragging rights because they are simply the fastast out there. I would say the same thing with the hd 7990 or gtx 690.
If I see this processor in anyone signature, it will denote to me that this person is the most hardcore of the hardcore of an AMD fanboy or got the processor for free. What hurts the meaning of this processors is AMD's 200 dollar processors come unlocked
AND your getting the same silicon as their 200 dollar processor, back in the day, nothing but a Intel extreme edition(and the upper FX series) had an unlocked multiplier. Your not even paying for the unlocked multiplier with the fx 9590.
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