AMD Offers Stock Watercooling for FX-9370, FX-9590 CPUs
Both processors to get an officially supported upgrade in cooling.
AMD has quietly launched a new retail SKU for two of its octa-core Piledriver processors, the FX-9370 and FX-9590, which include a liquid cooling kit to provide adequate cooling for the CPU's rather imposing TDP of 220 W.
As you might recall, both processors were initially only available in liquid-cooling equipped OEM PCs or in retail "WOF" SKUs that required the user to equip an aftermarket cooler to operate.
The new boxed SKUs are distinguished with a "WOF" on the end of the SKU number. Though we don't have any official information on the liquid cooler's technical specifications, it is currently available for pre-order at U.S. retailer Provantage.com with a $50 and $60 premium over the standard FX-9370 and FX-9590 SKUs, respectively.

"... processors, the FX-8370 .."
Should be FX-9370
CPUS should not run at 220W stock. Thats crazy.
While I very much appreciate AMD, I have to agree with this sentiment.
I think a better use of their time would have been to release an FM2 APU that has 6 cores, 6 MB L3 cache, and 128 shaders. Basically, an FX-6300 for the FM2/FM2+ platform. THAT is worthy of their time.
Even without the L3 cache, a 6 core APU would be a nice upgrade for anyone who is using a discrete video card. But, I think they could cram at least 2MB of L3 cache onto one.
Considering that the FX 9590 is barley able to keep up with and only beat a i7 4770K in some workloads at a much higher clock and about 3x TDP, what is the Comparable offering from Intel for the FX 9370?
Both are just stock overclocked cherry picked FX 8000 cores that AMD threw in as a stall until Steamroller arrives and hoping to make money.
The 9370 was $600 on release which meant it should have been able to keep up with and beat in some cases a i7 3930K, which even with the large frequency advantage it was not.
They are not worth it at any price due to the fact that their TDP is maxing the core out. Buy a FX 8350 for less than $200 and a much better H100i or Noctua cooling solution and overclock to the same speeds and you still have money over for a SSD or better memory.
220W - 84 W for comparable Intel = 135W. If it is used 8 hours per day it will be 1080W per day more power then Intel. 365 days * 1.080W * $0.1 per kWh = $36.5 per year AMD will cost more to operate.
220W - 84 W for comparable Intel = 135W. If it is used 8 hours per day it will be 1080W per day more power then Intel. 365 days * 1.080W * $0.1 per kWh = $36.5 per year AMD will cost more to operate.
220W - 84 W for comparable Intel = 135W. If it is used 8 hours per day it will be 1080W per day more power then Intel. 365 days * 1.080W * $0.1 per kWh = $36.5 per year AMD will cost more to operate.
are you running your cpu at 100% load 8 hours per day? I probably have my PC turned on average 5 hrs per day, the cpu is probably at its peak useage when gaming, which is probably 1 hour every other day, and that wouldn't be 100% useage. The rest of the time its idle, downloading stuff, or my wife is using it for facebook...... But still, yes 220w is still stupid.
In the early part of the millenium the divide between Intel and AMD was less, since people have basically flooded intel pockets for 10+ years even when AMD had the better chips have meant that that divide is insurmountable, Intel can release substandard and you have little choice in the matter AMD on the other hand have to release a God chip and even then will not be able to arrest market share because at the end of the day Intel will not let that happen they did that before.
The 9000 series CPUs were just AMD throwing the enthusiast a bone for PR purposes.
There aren't going to be any more major advances in consumer desktop CPUs, just minimal ones as we have seen from Intel and AMD. There's just no money in it for them. AMD is refocusing where they should be (servers and low power) and is getting more competitive in those areas.
I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever have to upgrade my 2500K before the complete cloud based changeover comes.