No you don't need luck because you just buy it online and send it back to get the money back if the cpu do not run @4cores. This is 100% lawful.
Thats right and in my point of view my B50 is better than a FX8150...
AMD sell it cheap 140€ but its not worth to upgrade from a B50@3,8ghz
You need a new main-board ~50-100€ to this means you spend 240€ for nothing..
Thats just wrong I'm not lucky you just need to buy it online and then send it back to get the money Back if the cpu do not run at 4cores and high clockspeed.
Sure this is a time consuming process.
Sure you can buy the 960T and unlock it to a X6.
And yes a 960T clocks @4ghz or 4.2ghz.
Yes you can get nice result if you are willing for the time consuming process by sending the cpu back.
Right they need to sell it very cheap to become relevance in any rational calculation of hardware buying.
Even 140€ is to high if you need a mainboard to upgrade.
The APUs are a full joke wen it comes to open-source drivers and the power-management.
Nothing to say here.
I would not buy such a system.
"ivb" is right for linux users who not want to buy a extra graphic card but only if they do some special work they have to remove the heat-spreader and you need (need means its not worth it if you don't do it) a water-cooling system or better then you overclock it to ~6ghz.
then the 200€ for the cpu is "cheap"
But if you don't want to fight hardcore with the hardware to kill the heat-spreader and if you don't want a water cooling system and if you want a extra graphic card its not worth it.
I don't get your argument you picket the worst example for a AMD CPU ever!!!
You get the same result if you pick AMD FX-Series FX-8120, 8x 3.10GHz for 140€ and over-clock it.
Also you cheat because the FX-8150 is much cheaper:
http://geizhals.de/eu/689396 only 172,80€
Thats a complex question and its only valid to check it if you only count 100% multi-core software.
Because the AMD "Bulldozer" CPU lose all single-core benchmarks...
If multi-core applications are in use then you can get 4,8ghz with a "bulldozer"
The Intel Intel Core i7-3770K run @4,5ghz
I think the FX-8120 will get a better performance per euro rating but only for multi-core applications.
Anyway the comparison do not have any relevance for me because I would not buy a TPM/Trusted-Computing-System.