I don't think thuban will be worth the price unless you can utilize all those cores either through multi-core optimized programs or heavy multitasking. Its probably going to be hotter and use more power and I can't see the 'turbo' taking it much higher than the 965's 3.4 but hey who knows... anyone who can utilize the 6 cores is going to get superb price/performance. Gaming performance will probably be zilch for a while.