So your argument is that people should buy Bulldozer because Sandy Bridge gets recommended more often because it's better? How does that even make sense from an unbiased point of view?
If you buy inferior products that cost the same or similar, you're a bad consumer. Buying an 8120 instead of a 2500K, in the vast majority of occasions, means you're buying an inferior product AND you're rewarding AMD for their bad efforts/lazy engineering.
If you want to support good AMD products buy their GPUs or APUs instead.
Nope, that's not my "argument" at all.
At a certain price point, BD can be legitimately considered. Anyone who bought an AMD processor in the last year or so can continue to get the same basic performance for the same price. This is true of SB as well. You even get a few nifty instructions thrown in.
Evidently everyone, EVER, that built a Thuban rig was a POOR CONSUMER and needs a frontal lobotomy so that they won't influence the market with their stupid decision making. Ditto for just about any AMD purchase in the last year to two years.
To your point, the 8120 and the 2500k do not "cost the same." Hence all those links I posted and you efficiently ignored. If $50 is irrelevant, I don't know why sites like slickdeals exist. Clearly money is important to someone.
Before you throw that "save it in power" comment out there, that's only true for people who are using their computer @ 100% for an extremely extended amount of time. For most it will be insignificant - or, and get this - an improvement over buying a Phenom 2 now because idle power is so much better. To those who say it would need a bigger PSU, if we are only talking about basic CPU needs here then you are likely buying a ~400W power supply minimum, right? So you don't need a bigger one for BD. If you are going to be rocking some big GPUs, they'll need their own power budget in a hurry anyway.
Believe it or not, I am not drooling on my keyboard OR bleeding from my ears when I type that.
And, FWIW, I think LLano on the desktop is joke at this point (at its current price point, again, let's talk again when the A8 is well below $100 or if Trinity rocks). So no, I won't endorse that as a "successful" product. In laptops? Sure.
There has to be a price point where 8xxx FX gets interesting for you, doesn't there? Ignoring that isn't good consumer practice either or we'll all be paying Apple markups for everything? So if the 8120 was $100? (which effectively is with this MC deal...) $50? Free? We should be able to find some common ground here...