Hardware

There isn't much that hasn't been said about AMD's notorious FX processors. They've been covered time and time again, and it seems like every look back the negative reception never gets better. The short version is, these CPUs were much maligned for being late to market, hot and power hungry, but above all else their performance was second-rate compared to Intel's options at the time, and they're not winning any awards today either. The generally accepted reason for this dismal performance was a controversial clustered multi-threading approach, which involved sharing a few major resources between cores. However, there is an anomaly out there in the FX series that could change the discussion.