sorry for the late reply - that machine was using bulldozer cores, not piledriver. Also I was exaggerating for effect I guess, that thing has left a bad taste i

sorry for the late reply - that machine was using bulldozer cores, not piledriver. Also I was exaggerating for effect I guess, that thing has left a bad taste in my mouth. What I really mean is that when compared to a mainstream i7 it sucks - you can effectively put twice as much work on the i7, and it has the added bonus of being able to run a cpu hungry single threaded job basically twice as fast as the bulldozer when there isn't much/any cpu contention.