That is yet to be seen as AMD CPU haven't been making money in years and I doubt this is going to have a dent on their revenue statement. The 9370 might sell a something but it is still a poor value when 2 8320s are 150 dollars and the fx 9320 is 350 dollars.Originally Posted by i found nemo
AMD still has to pay to advertise these processors and bin them.
AMD needs new desktop processors ASAP. This processor is being released just a bit after Haswell has been released. Haswell going to make their sales even worse and further more, if these things get in reviewers hands, this might actually turn out to be anti advertisement for AMD.
I.E People see a 4770k and a fx 9590 in a review. The 4770k comes slightly ahead in most scenarios at stock and constantly ahead when both are overclocked. Considering it uses half the power is $500-550 cheaper. You don't need to buy some sort of water cooling system to cool it. 4770K all of a sudden looks like a steal, even for people with an AMD platform. With that 500 dollars savings, you could buy a motherboard and a new videocard. Heck you could buy a 3930k and a motherboard and have a much faster platform.
Even the reviewer said in the review I posted, what the hell is AMD thinking releasing these at 700 pounds. Negative reviews of a products can help your competition sell processors. This should be one of those cases.
As an upgrade path, it's not going to tempt people with 8320 and 8350 unless they are AMD fans and just want to throw money AMD's way as some sort of charity gesture. They might get a couple hundred mhz but this isn't worth 600-700 dollars. They aren't getting any more cores, a new stepping or anything particularly new. Heck they are not even getting a cooler which at least came with their cheap processor. Even people who want to break records are better off buying 5 or 6 fx83xx since these things are not tested for ln2 or He2 conditions and suicide runs kill processors.
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