Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
I really doubt that.... it does not work the way you are thinking.
Games still can hardly use all 6 cores. I think he meant going the way which Intel did with ClarksField, using SMT. Using 3 cores with SMT would have reduced the die size, lower the TDP and can go for higher clock speed as well as higher Turbo.

Quote Originally Posted by MrMojoZ View Post
Not worth what hype? The extra cores do what they are supposed to in multi-threaded scenarios and the turbo works great. This is a nice jump over Phenom II and a great upgrade path for AM2+ and AM3 owners. Can you point me toward something Thuban didn't deliver on?
This caught my eye -> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...fx,2613-9.html