AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

[tifosi]

A year from now you'll see BD for the desktop. If you want something faster than your 965, then grab a cheap X6 1055 and wait until Q3 of next year or grab a Sandy Bridge setup from Intel. And this coming from an AMD user.

I think you could rather buy an octy MC and a dual socket mobo... this will be somewhat future-proof... as after BD comes you should be able to run it with a simple bios update... which is not something that you could say about Intel platforms (both server and desktop) and AMD's desktop offerings at this point in time...

Edit: Makes for an incredible value proposition too... what with the cheapest MC coming in at $290 appx and dual socket board for about $450
FYR...
Mobo... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131643
CPU... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819105266