Tukwi, Mans New BAD Boy compatibility with DDR3 memory; the original Itanium Tukwila design was compatible with DDR2 only, and an upgrade to allow the Tukwila CPU to use the same socket as future Itanium processors.
The future processors that Intel is talking about are code-named Poulson and Kittson. Not much is known about these two future processors other than the Poulson part will be built on a 32nm process and will have more than four cores per processor.
Tukwila is built on the 65nm process and has 2 billion transistors. The CPU will also have 30MB of on-die cache along with dual integrated memory controllers for balanced performance.
Tulwi was updated becasue ibm Power6 significantly beat tulwila. 2 Billion iVM, Cann't Be ALL Smudge....TS Drashek

AMD are challenging in the clockspeed stakes, means Intel will have to start lowering the price of it's i7 cpu's. This is excellent for me and you. If we can wait for 12 months then I would expect better products and pricing. I expect Christmas 2009 to a great time to buy a gaming rig!

Its no surprise that synthetic benchmarks favor Intel CPUs. What people want to see are real world performance figures.

Charlie, you forgot a very important point.
3DMark05 is 5 years old, on the 2 last version of 3DMark (06 and Vantage), the lead is more around 25 to 30% ... on recent version, there is no real challenge, even Core 2 is winning easily.
All the other benchies are much more easy to win.
Why did you choose the picture without smile, we both were having fun!
Take it easy!

much better photos of Phenom II overclocking session

http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/artikkelit/jaahdytys/kuvaraportti-ylikellotusta-nestemaisella-heliumilla-269-astetta