Quite frankly speaking I'm not impressed by the results.

That way I will just stick to the (IMHO) best price / performance AMD Phenom II 955 and stay with socket AM3. When AMD brings Istanbul to desktop then ill consider an CPU upgrade.

On a side note I wonder how Intel will screw everyone with all these new sockets. Its going to be amusing to watch all these "upgrades", where users find their motherboards incompatible.