AMD orders HUGE price cut on FX-9590 – Game on!

[LtMatt]

When KitGuru ran a preliminary analysis of the price/performance for the AMD FX-9590, we calculated a bang-per-buck based only on early info from the channel. The conclusion at that stage was clear: The price was well out. Now that has changed – and in a big way.
The idea of a processor that can Turbo to 5GHz straight from the box is very appealing.
The idea of a price tag around £700 would be enough to turn off Jerry Sanders himself.
A posting has just gone up on ****’s web site to say that a MASSIVE price cut has been declared by AMD.
Calculating backwards, it looks like the drop from AMD on the FX-9590 is close to $500.
That’s the channel price.
For AMD enthusiasts, it means that your FX-9590 is now likely to be available for as little as £299 inc vat!

Source
Can't post it as it has a competitor link but it came from kitguru.

 

[Martini1991]

It's live.
And it's still crap.

Edit the quote too, has a competitor in.

 

[LtMatt]

Edit the quote too, has a competitor in.

Cheers, link removed.

 

[humbug]

Turbo to 5Ghz or not £300 is still way to much, it need's that just to keep up with a 3770K (per core) at silly watts.... its not worth as much as that let alone more.

AMD need to stop prating about with Vishera and get PD on the shelves at a good price.

 

[Martini1991]

PD already is on the shelves at good price.
And it's the 4770K it needs to be aiming at now.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Right...any AMD fans wanna pay 100% extra over a 8350/150% extra over the 8320 in cost for factory overclocking?

Thought not.

 

[humbug]

PD already is on the shelves at good price.
And it's the 4770K it needs to be aiming at now.

I meant SR (Steamroller)

I cringed everytime I give these things their full name, stop it with the playschool themes already.

 

[teppic]

It's a good option for competitive overclockers, not much else. At least it's now at a too high price rather than a ridiculous price.

 

[Something Else]

if you are an amd fan then why not, people have wasted their money on worse things before.

 

[Suarez7]

300 quid gets you a 4770k and some change which will wipe the floor with that 5ghz chip at a much lower clock speed lol.

AMD are backwards with their CPU's, they need to adapt the same model as their GPU's.

 

[Ryan-3]

Wow. Must rush out and buy it...

As said by Suarez7, why don't they ask the GPU department what they should be doing, as they certainly don't know what they're doing.

Buy an i7 4770K, OC it, and wipe the floor with the 9590.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

AMD orders, lol nice spin.

AMD set the price hoping to bend loyal customers over. They would be better off dropping the ridiculous product and hoping that people will forget.

 

[Boomstick777]

300 quid gets you a 4770k and some change which will wipe the floor with that 5ghz chip at a much lower clock speed lol.

This ^^

I got my 4770K + mobo for £300. There is nout that can compete with that value VS performance from AMD.

Wish AMD would hurry up and release Steamroller based desktop chips as well as Kaveri APU's. AMD have great vision but just seem to execute to late... AMD is just to slow getting things out of the gate.. Will always root for the underdog though .

 

[humbug]

300 quid gets you a 4770k and some change which will wipe the floor with that 5ghz chip at a much lower clock speed lol.

AMD are backwards with their CPU's, they need to adapt the same model as their GPU's.

Wow. Must rush out and buy it...

As said by Suarez7, why don't they ask the GPU department what they should be doing, as they certainly don't know what they're doing.

Buy an i7 4770K, OC it, and wipe the floor with the 9590.

Jim keller (Athlon XP architect) is back at AMD's CPU department now to kick it back into shape and pull a few heads off.....

He's forgiven for deserting to Apple and more than welcome back, now he just needs to get to work on fixing AMD's CPU's.

 

[Kaapstad]

Turbo to 5Ghz or not £300 is still way to much, it need's that just to keep up with a 3770K (per core) at silly watts.... its not worth as much as that let alone more.

AMD need to stop prating about with Vishera and get PD on the shelves at a good price.

I wish AMD would forget about these mega multi core CPUs and concentrate on producing a decent quad core with good individual core performance, once they get that right then start adding cores.

 

[teppic]

That's hopefully what Steamroller is going to do...

 

[JediFragger]

Would still take an i7@3Ghz over this turd

 

[Kaapstad]

That's hopefully what Steamroller is going to do...

It would be good news for everybody if AMD can come up with something that can beat the i7s at their own game.

The CPU market has gone hardly anywhere in the last 3 or 4 years.

If an i7 920 came with integrated graphics (and overclocked) it would be hard for people running it to tell the difference between it and the modern i7s.

Come on AMD make intel work for our money.

 

[wazza300]

they need to poach some intel staff

 

[mmj_uk]

Based on performance these should be about £200 but even then you have massive disadvantages compared to competing Intel's (no OC headroom, insane TDP, overvolted chip, less warranty).

Will they be offering refunds to the loyal AMD fans who got ripped off for £700?