I would never feel "lucky" if they milk me like a cash cow. A chip at 122 mm^squared for 350$.
Thanks but it doesn't make sense from a business perspective and my financials.
Do you want to listen me only on one moment... How much cost proper AMD platform, nice motherboard with strong VRM enough to keep overclocked FX8350, than FX8350 and 16GB memory on 1866MHz... That cost about 400$...
I paid premium Intel platform Z77 on Spring 2012 about 680e... That's 280e more.
I used Intel platform 3 years and constantly I was aware that my graphic card work on my platform absolutely same as on 1000$ worth processor.
Better to say I was aware that my platform could drain max usage from any single, dual or SLI premium graphic cards on the world. In period of 3 years.
I could use and longer but let's say 3 years. After that I can sell platform for around 300-350e, i7, DDR3 and motherboard. That mean for 3 years I spend only 330-350e to play whole time without bottleneck.
Now what happen with AMD user who pay around 400...First he is constantly behind Intel platform and need to check how much is behind and always to ask before upgrade graphic cards and compare with Intel and always look lower GPU result. Second...If he want to come close to Intel as much as possible he need to OC processor on 4.7-4.8GHz or more. On that clock AMD CPU spend more power than premium graphic card and again whole time is behind Intel. This facts are enough for normal people to say Intel save our money and give us maximum performance.
Pay attention when I say I paid 650-680e platform, that's because I go on most expensive board. I could get same performance and with board 150-180e as Hero and than cost would be 550 example...From other side some AMD users spend over 200-220 on motherboards as Crosshair.
Now everyone who invest over 400$ should think about Intel. Maybe even less. Better to buy Intel platform and normal motherboard and worse cheapest 2x2GB memory without heatsinks before save money for normal kit than investing in AMD platform and 4x4GB or 2x8GB some 100-150$ worth kit. I didn't talk about 3 years period and how much gamer with FX8350 4.8GHz spend more money on power than gamer with i7-3770K 4.5GHz.
Price difference for 3 years is 100% enough to cover difference between new FX8350 and new i7 K processor with HT. 100% for 3 years period.
I agree Intel launch processor to often with small improvements, but all processors are strong enough and gamers will not have problem with any graphic cards. It's very hard now to build 50% stronger CPU... How? For what? Because of that Intel concentrate on other features.
