Yeah, but there is a middle ground between dissappointment (2900XT and original Phenom) and Excitement (Original Athlon64). The Phenom II was expected to be better than Phenom and it is, so it's not a dissappointment, it's still not nearly good enough to compete with Intel at the high end, so it isn't exciting... It's what the original Phenom should have been, which would have been exciting back then. Not so much now.