i think some people need to not make it so personal, otherwise bans could be coming...

for those arguing about BD in desktop single threaded uses, i feel sorry for the people who buy an octo-core cpu, when they really just needed a duel-core, and could save themselves a few hundred dollars. for gaming, its quite easy to expect the turbo from 2-4 threads will be strong enough to keep it up there with SB. just take thuban gaming scores, add 10-15% for IPC, add 10% for clocks if 3 cores or less (4.1ghz/3.7ghz), 24% if its 4 threads since thuban can only turbo 3 (4.1ghz/3.3ghz). were looking at 25 to 46% increase in gaming performance over the best thuban vs the first BD. (how well can SB turbo with 4 threads running?, i only know max turbo is 3.8ghz, but i have no clue what cases let it reach that) *these numbers are based on stock expectations and have no bearing on OCed results that are way to much guesswork to predict.