@Soleron
I do understand your concern for performance per watt and while it would be great if AMD could lower their CPU TDP, to me it really makes no difference. I live in a condo where my electricity is included in the maintenance fees I pay every month. Once we consider that they are still using 32 nm, there is definitely room to for improvement even with existing architecture by shrinking the CPU die.
@rest
There were a lot of good posts in here. I sense there is a level of hesitation when it comes to enthusiasts and AMD in general and I do think it's justified. AMD should take some of that blame for all the talk they did before Bulldozer came out which came out overpriced and didn't deliver what they promised. However at current price points (I see the FX 8350 for as low as $169) I think they offer very competitive value compared to Intel. Once you consider that the type of CPU benchmarks we see on tech sites do not represent actual computer usage for most people and are very skewed to a single threaded performance, AMD's new FX chips starts to look pretty sweet. I for one don't want to have to think about closing every program I am running before playing a game of Crysis 2.
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