You're making the assumption that everyone has the same uses as you. BF3 4 cores, Max Payne 3.. Google Chrome uses multiple threads per tab (each tab is its own process). If you MC bot, Tibia has 2 active threads plus bot threads (10 bot clients is easily 30 threads). If you are a programmer, your development and debugging environment easily requires 5+ threads (Debugger GUI, debugger back-end, application threads, IDE, compiler, test suites, etc). Not to mention that, in itself, Windows is a core hog with it's kernel. So, yes, while Intel may wipe the floor in raw core performance, I still prefer Bulldozer since the extra cores provide an overall better experience by isolating the different threaded components instead of making them rely on each others execution on a virtual level.