Put Dunnington on your desktop

[IronBits]

DUNNINGTON (http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/24/intel-csi-nehalem-dunnington)IS the first six-core - single-die, mind you - X86 chip, and the last high-end Penryn derivative before the Nehalems take over. In fact, it is three "little Penryn 3 MB cache" dual core processors put together on the same die, with a huge 16MB L3 cache putting them all together.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/25/dunnington-desktop

[Digital Parasite]

Yeah I wonder how well that will perform with heavy loads using all 6 cores. The L3 cache will help but you have to wonder how much contention there will be going out the bus and back to communicate between each batch of dual-core parts.