Yeah and following your logic the i5 750 is be all end all of all the desktop models since it is only 7% off from the 870 with SMT and turbo and a few percents more off from the rest of the high end. The point is that the 965BE is not that far behind the whole Nehalem line,it loses by a hair in many tests and by a lot in select few which twists the overall performance rating towards the i5 and i7. Turbo boost,although very good future that AMD will also use, makes the 750 actually not the 2.66Ghz CPU as it never actually works at that clock.This is not bad since you get higher clock out of the box,but paints a wrong picture when someone says 2.66Ghz lynnfield is as fast as 955BE or 965BE.

To sum it up,one more speed bin from AMD and they will cover the 3Ghz Bloomfield equivalent ,they really don't have to be more competitive than this .They will have IPC boosted(a la Deneb) 32nm shrink of 10h so that will tide them over quite nicely until bulldozer launches.