...and I'll bring you a customer, AMD. I want a new MB with more than one PCI-Express slot, and I might as well upgrade when I get it. Bring impressive performance with this chip, and I'll switch from my OC'd Quad Xeon x3210.

But you have to bring the performance, or I'll end up going i5. I'm married to no hardware vendor, and go where the price/performance is best.

I am not sure but I remember that many games written for Xbox 360 are optimised for running on 3 cores, as the Xbox 360 has 3 cores..
So if memory serves me well would this be an optimal use of resources in gaming. Using the 3 highspeed cores for gaming , and leaving the remaining 3 lowspeed cores with more than enough horse power to do housekeeping and other background tasks

Look, most software out there isn't really threadable. There's an amount of parallelism you can get out of the OS and certain applications that involve heavy calculations, but for MOST apps 6 cores is 5 too many.

The idea of shifting speed to those cores that need it seems like a great plan.

@Ulrich

Lame turbo for lamers ^_^

So in AMD reviews they have to say if it's done three or six cores, but Intel reviews dont say if they are using turbo or not.
Now that AMD has turbo it's time to critize it's turbo implementation, while intel's lame turbo boost has never been tested properly