Bulldozers first screens

[-Boris-]

I sense you are trying (maybe uncounsciously) to rewrite what I said just to fit your optics better. "Games" turned into "flash games", "poorly threaded" turned into "single threaded" etc. Gaming performance will be a scenario that is pretty important for a CPU and wich would not benefit at all from more than 4 cores but scales ok with better thread performance.

No, I didn't rewrite games to flash games. I added flash games to the youtube kind of people. I didn't mention gamers specifically since I didn't think they were essential to the discussion, I put them in the category of people who as I said "pushes their computer a bit". I thought you talked about the youtube guys mainly. And Bulldozer isn't aimed for them.

But we can break it down to these main groups.
1. Ordinary users, using Office, youtube, flash games and simple browsing and occasional games.
2. Gamers.
3. Advanced users.

Bulldozer isn't aimed for number 1, Llano is, and might be a much better option than SB here. So these people aren't a problem. For the guys at number 2 Bulldozer has the potential of boosting performance with its decoupled FPU. So even if the games won't use all 8 integer cores they might be boosted by all 8 FPUs. Combined with very aggressive turbo I don't think you should count Bulldozer out as an alterantive for these guys. For the guys that fit in number 3 Bulldozer seems to be a perfect fit. 8 cores performance when needed, or fewer boosted cores when the situation changes. And if you want fewer threads there will be quad and hexa core Bulldozers as well. Most likely with higher frequencies and much lower price. I don't doubt these will compete very well at their price point.

So I honestly don't see the problem here. For all we know BD will have more cores, higher IPC and might even have a decent frequency advantage over Phenom II.