I wasn't being serious
If you need 8 threads ; 8150 > 2600k, I've said that consistently.
And I'm far from assuming all rumours are true.
But if people think that magic BIOS's and magic optimisations are going to come around, then fair enough, I don't share the same "opinion".
I expect BD to be priced aggressively, and expect the architecture to be very future friendly, however I'm more of an "in the moment" kind of guy.
If you can use the CPU's fully, then they'll be excellent price/performance.
I doubt we'll see a large boost in single threaded performance across the board, but I believe this alludes to the fact these chips could in fact offer greater performance in specific use cases, once a lot of work has been done.
It's likely that in most cases the single threaded performance is simply good enough, and that most people who pick up a high end CPU do so for gaming, where they arguably don't need the extra grunt, or for tasks which are more than likely going to benefit from the extra cores anyway. I'm not attempting to argue that a 2500k won't be faster at a whole load of things, just that the in most of those circumstances the difference might as well be considered zero.
I'm aware that a lot of people will have a lot of different use cases, but in my own, like a lot of people here, I'm a gamer, and if the CPU completely flops there I'll probably be a bit unhappy about that. However, on the other hand if it manages to break my required minimums, I can't think of many use cases where the difference in single thread performance will really matter.
Like I said, I'm aware that use cases are different for each of us, but this looks like it _could_ be a seriously nice CPU for the price for me. Just waiting on some real world info now.
