I am completely disappointed at the speeds.

The fastest 8 core is at 2.26 Ghz. If we leave the HT feature you have 8x2.26 = 18 GHz with a cost of nearly 4'000 US$ retail price per chip. I do not think you can overclock those chips or surely not in an easy way.

The 980X 6 core running smoothly at 4.00 Ghz (could do 4.2) has a power of 24 Ghz for the cost of 1'100 US$.

Movieman if you have the opportunity to make a comparative test on those dirty cheap chips you are welcome
I suppose that none of us has the financial means to play with those chips.

Intel and AMD serve up multi-core contest

Servers, whether the tall wardrobe type or those pizza-box slices of hardware that slide into racks in data centre ovens, seem suddenly almost sexy...ñ....

New examples of AMD Phenom II six-core chips! 3.6 Ghz Turbo Mode? I got to get my hands on these!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/193095/details..._chips_leaked_online.html

but if your running wcg on all 6 cores then you will max out at 3.2 per core. Interesting in that review though, it outperformed even a I7 980x playing call of Duty Modern warfare 2. Seems AMD wants to hold/retake gaming enthusiasts love, which would give more cores up for gamers who do WCG. (I recruited a gamer yesterday, one more quad core for the cause!)