This is so depressing, been a AMD user ever since the socket A days, and even with all the problems with the VIA / nforce 2 chipsets, I still stuck with AMD throughout the years, since there was actually some real value & cost savings to be had.
Now however, ever since the downfall of STARS, and their launch of bulldozer / piledriver / steamroller / excavator AMD seems to have abandoned the enthusiast market completely.

There is nothing in their current lineup, nor anything in the foreseeable future (through 2017 ) that would make most people looking for raw CPU power even consider AMD anymore.

For AMD to even get close, you got to deal with some serious heat & voltage issues and that really don't make much monetary sense, compared to what you can get on the other side of the isle.

Intel dropped the ball with their NetBurst microarchitecture, (which AMD benefited greatly) and corrected it with their current lineup, so, why hasn't AMD corrected their disastrous experiment with bulldozer?

Is this all we can expect from AMD until they drop their current microarchitecture design they went to long ago and actually start competing with intel again on the high end ?