AMD to start Bulldozer AM3+ production by March 2011, launch in April 2011

[RPGWiZaRD]

How much likely do you concider an April launch? With the somewhat luckluster release of SB with limited bclk possibility versus AMD's "all-in" attempt to raise from the shadows of Intel in order to try and break out from the current scenario when Intel controls the performance and sets the pricing it's rather tempting to sit back and wait and see but I would hate to find out that Bulldozer would get delayed to say June/July for example.

[alucasa]

How much likely do you concider an April launch? With the somewhat luckluster release of SB with limited bclk possibility versus AMD's "all-in" attempt to raise from the shadows of Intel in order to try and break out from the current scenario when Intel controls the performance and sets the pricing it's rather tempting to sit back and wait and see but I would hate to find out that Bulldozer would get delayed to say June/July for example.

Well, I personally don't doubt that AMD can release their next generation CPU in April for the masses, but I am in doubt that they can match Intel's progress in CPU tech.
Which means that I am looking forward to build a bulldozer rig but I am not looking forward its performance to be on par with SB.

[Solus Corvus]

I think it is reasonable to have conservative expctations. Realistically we can't say with any certainty how these chips will perform. To many factors changed between architectures.

I suspect it may be another situation where it depends on what you are using it for. It may be slow at single thread tasks, but have strong multithreaded performance.