same questions were raised when there was a shift from high end duals to mid range quads..on games like GTA 4 we clearly saw Q6600s outperforming the E8400 and so on....i guess we can apply pretty much the same here......in the future more optimized games would run better on a 2.8GHz X6 than a 2.66GHz i5...even with the architectural advantage with the i5s.....there is not much difference between the i7s/i5s and P2s when it comes to gaming(at high setting at which we actually play at!), why the fuss?