Quote Originally Posted by TESKATLIPOKA View Post
freeloader BD won't crush SB but will be an excellent competitor that's what we all want. To crush the competition BD would need to have at least a core better by 10% than SB. Even if it had the same core to core performance It would be better only in 5-8 threads because SB has HT. You need to be reminded that SB is better by 30-35% than Deneb core to core and you want BD to have a better core by 40-50% than Deneb thats pretty much unreal.
Because you won't get that much improvement BD is a disappointment for you, then what would you buy, SB? BD should be on par with SB or you can get SB-E but it would be pointless if you don't use more than 4 threaded applications because SB and SB-E will perform almost the same in single thread and only the higher core count will make the real difference.
I was hoping that BD would be faster than SB by 10%+ in most benches. I bought into the hype too heavily. AMD will have a chip that's within 10% of the performance of an I2600K. It's a good chip at a good price, I was just expecting a bit more. Because of my current setup (955@4ghz), I'm still going to buy the top model BD just to overclock the heck out of it when it's released. Roughly eight weeks to go.