The thing about cpus is the highest performing ones are well above what you actually need for anything besides quite intensive, specific tasks such as video encoding (which is now in many cases offloaded to gpus anyway).
Intel is far more expensive than AMD, both in cpu and the motherboards to put them on. Whether the extra performance is worth that cost jump when you actually (in almost all cases) don't need it is debatable.
While the FX cpus are a disappointment they're not bad as such, just not the massive leap they were hoping for.
I would agree with Enty though that getting a Phenom II x6 is probably a better bang for buck purchase.
In the end though what you have is two cars that can go 300km/h and 350km/h, the thing is you really only need to go 120.
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Intel is far more expensive than AMD, both in cpu and the motherboards to put them on. Whether the extra performance is worth that cost jump when you actually (in almost all cases) don't need it is debatable.
While the FX cpus are a disappointment they're not bad as such, just not the massive leap they were hoping for.
I would agree with Enty though that getting a Phenom II x6 is probably a better bang for buck purchase.
In the end though what you have is two cars that can go 300km/h and 350km/h, the thing is you really only need to go 120.