Like I said, too little too late and you are mostly right. I am not seeing anything interesting from Kaveri despite all the hype.It's a waste of time and money from AMD. If AMD really wants to shake up the FX series, it ought to introduce new silicon based on the Steamroller cores that drive Kaveri, and it ought to offer a new chipset worthy of the FX's enthusiast aspirations. Price cuts and variations on old themes are all well and good, but they're not enough if AMD wants to keep up with Intel.
The only thing that is ideal coming out of this is you don't have to worry about your motherboard going up in smoke/subsequently throttling your CPU in future firmware updates because it was never really designed to handle the 125W FX series. Given that the cheapest one is $154, though, it makes little sense to build a new rig with this. Best option would be to sell off your old FX CPU for maybe half the price and put that towards the new FX.
What they should really do is make a 65-70something watt version of the 6300 and price it at $69.99 or something. They really need to drop prices and consolidate the FX line. Have the 6 core 65W for $60-70 and an 8 core 95W for $90-100. Eliminate all the other models. None of the FX CPU's are worth their current price anymore and there are far too many of them.
They should hurry up.Supposedly AMD have a brand new CPU architecture in the works based on SMT. Maybe they can get back in the game this time around.
As a consumer I would welcome that.