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I had two Bulldozers. Bulldozer wasn't competitive at the top end, but I always found Athlon chips to be cheaper than their performance equivalent Intel part. So the fastest AMD chip would be cheaper than the third fastest Intel part. Still a good value. Terrible for AMD's bottom-line though.

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Fair enough. I feel like I got decent value out of my Athlon. At the time, it sure seemed like a gross power hog. I suspect I would be shocked by its modest TDP if I went and looked back at specs.