Be realistic people. Something like 5 weeks from release and theres still no performance numbers for Bulldozer, don't ignore whats staring you in the face and thats BD won't be the miracle chip people are praying for like A64 was. I'll go on record right now and say whatever AMD intend as direct competion for the 2500k to be about 10% slower than the 2500k. If the gap is larger, that won't surprise me either. Nomatter which way you slice things, theres absolutely nothing to even suggest BD is equally as efficient as SB, nevermind better. Anybody remember me saying BD could be released for AM3 if AMD really wanted to albiet with a few exclusions but AMD kept saying "oh no BD must have a new socket and chipset".... yet now BD will essentially be released on the AM3 platform just with the AM3 socket itself so marginally modified you wouldn't even notice if you didn't know about it.