Monday, June 23rd 2014
AMD to Launch FX-9590 Refresh Package
AMD is preparing a new retail package of its feisty FX-9590 eight-core processor, in a bid to woo crowds away from Intel's Core i7-4790K "Devil's Canyon" processor. The package combines an FX-9590, which till now was sold chip-only (without a cooling solution), with an Asetek-made liquid CPU cooler, for US $359. Given that without the cooler, the FX-9590 costs $319, the extra $40 for a liquid cooler adds great value. Based on the 32 nm "Vishera" silicon, the FX-9590 features eight CPU cores based on the "Piledriver" micro-architecture, clocked at 4.70 GHz, with Turbo Core speeds of 5.00 GHz; a dual-channel DDR3 integrated memory controller that natively supports DDR3-1866 MHz, 8 MB of total L2 cache, 8 MB of L3 cache; and modern instruction sets such as AVX, AES, FMA3, etc.
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HardwareCanucks
60 Comments on AMD to Launch FX-9590 Refresh Package
Also AMD, for great value I will stick with the 8320 and overclock it for 100$.
But I'm pretty sure that the bundled cooler's fan(s) is(/are) a similar turbine like in FX-8150 bundle..
"AMD to Launch FX-9590 Refresh Package"
and the first thing that comes in your mind is
WHY?
AMD is just doing the same as their competition.
Let's better support AMD and give them your damn money!
:peace: corniest post of the day!
AMD: Look, we made our box prettier.
No wonder Intel is doing better... I'm really starting to get tired of all of this PR without any substantive changes or improvements. Come on, AMD, spend you money elsewhere...
5GHz out the box no fiddling, with a bundled liquid cooling system. This CPU does have its place.
I can overclock a 4770k. I can't overclock a stock cooler into something worth a damn. When you take out the retail price of the cooler (from the bundled price), it's really not that terrible of a deal. Adversely, if you add the price of that (or some kind of enthusiast cooler you'd actually end up buying) to Intel's price, it starts getting a little spendy for a consumer platform that will be outdated (in Intel's eyes) in a year (or at most two).
Wish it were slightly cheaper (DC vs 9590 w/aio at same price or lower would be at least an interesting discussion), but what can they do? They have to make some kind of margin on their super-binned parts.
Was planning on buying this for a fresh AMD system, but guess I'll keep my nice loop and get a 8320 or something.
P.s DC was a refresh, or at least a marginal improvement for overcooking standards. They had to for the K sake!
As I said, give AMD your damn money and they will have the financial resources to move onto new manufacturing processes. God damn it!