lets just admit it,bulldozer failed and bad,i always had intel then got a 1055t and overclocked it to 3.7ghz with 16gb of 1600mhz corsiar ram.it kills anything i do.i only bought it cuz i got it used cheap.amd isnt gona catch up to intel.in gaming the i3-2100 dualcore performs as good as amd 1100t 6 core.so you see intel only needs 2 cores to beat amd's 6 cores.its not just about cores its about the cpu structure.the i7-990x is expensive for a reason,it kills every desktop cpu even the i7-2600k kills all of them.aND THEY OVERCLOCK WELL OVER 4.5GHZ AND USE LESS ENERGY THEN BULLDOZER.like i said im using amd,but only cuz i got a good deal.but in no way can you compre it to intel