Intel Core i7 3960X versus AMD FX 8150

The Intel i7 3960X running on the X79 chip-set (SB-E architecture, where the E could mean, extreme, enthusiast, or Eloi as in Morlock vs the Eloi from Planet of the Apes?!?), Intel's flagship Extreme Edition desktop processor, recently came into the market following on the footsteps of the X58 chip-set processors like the i7 980X (with which it shares clock speeds).  The Intel Core i7-3960X Processor Extreme Edition is a beast of a desktop processor in many ways, thought it has some really stupid (one might use that word) shortcomings. The AMD FX 8150 is also a beast of a processor in other ways.
 The FX 8150 is AMD's flagship desktop processor (you can call it extreme because of some of its features, though that is an Intel marketing term only), and can go head to head with, and even beat the i7 3960X when it comes to comparing specifications, and price versus performance value. First of all we are going to look at the basics:

www.knowbytes.com knowbyte on YouTube knowbytes on BlogSpot	i7 3960X	AMD FX 8150
Launched	November 14, 2011	October 12, 2011
Speed	3300 MHz	3600 MHz
Cores	6	8
Price (week of Nov. 24, 2011)	US $1050	US $240

The i7 3960X was released over a month after the FX 8150 so the speed difference of a paltry approximately 10%, with the FX 8150 being 300 Mega Hertz faster than the i7 3960X, is not much of a deal. Unless one thinks...