As bad as Bulldozer may seem today, it is actually a very fast architecture WHEN the software support is there as we've seen in a few select benchmarks. This scenario reminds of of when AMD's 64-bit CPU came out and subsequently the 64 X2s. We barely had any 64-bit OS support at the time. We also didn't have a plethora of dual-threaded apps until years later. Bulldozer is a little too ahead of the curve this time around as an OS with a scheduler that can handle it is a year away (Windows 8).

AMD made a solid product with Bulldozer. They simply fail hard at rounding up software support in a timely manner.

PS: My old Pentium 4 945 runs like a champ in Windows 7 compared to XP when it came out. Too little too late I guess.