Unless AMD puts out their "new" Reverse Hyperthreading technology very fast, this chip is pretty much useless on anything other than a pure office machine or a htpc machine. Todays gaming machines with high end videocards is cpu-bottlenecked as they are, even with extreme cpu's.

Games will only utilize 256mb of cache which will seriously cripple the games compared to a 3800+ dualcore. With Reverse Hyperthreading, at least it rises to 512.