I am absolutely crushed by the sad state of Bulldozer. How does an architecture specifically tuned for multithreaded performance fail so hard at said tasks? I was hoping for performance between quad SB and Gulftown, with significantly lower platform costs, but instead we get performance that on average, matches Thuban and at best, matches quad SB. I've exclusively used AMD for my personal systems since my first custom computer with a Thoroughbred Athlon XP. I shed a tear as I'm literally forced to upgrade to Intel.