To be honest, I hyped up Bulldozer a bit myself. I saw it perform better for certain software that does string comparisons. I also found that Matlab performs poorly on it, along with certain python functions. It is hit and miss, and I don't think Informal is being unreasonable. Nobody is arguing that Bulldozer is without it's flaws, and no one in this thread will be fooled into thinking they should buy an FX 8150 instead of a Xeon E5-2690.