content: I was a huge fan of AMD from the AMD K6-2 all the way up to the Phenom II architecture. The FX series turned me off with shared L2 cache and poor CPU performance overall compared to the i7. My use cases aren't typical. A lot of my friends I have helped build FX series systems. All of my family I have built them FX series systems when it came time to upgrades. They all mostly just browse the web and play games that care more about the GPU. I'm hoping the upcoming Zen CPU turns things around for them so I can switch back. I just couldn't ignore the performance differences.