AMD Phenom II X6 -- OhMyGod!!!

Six cores?! SIX CORES?!?! Holy hell!
Currently, AMD has released two processors from this family; the Phenom II X6 1055T ($199 list) and the Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition ($295 list).


What makes these processors worth the money? A quote from ExtremeTech states:

According to AMD, the Phenom II X6 CPUs are the company's new flagship desktop processors, as well as the fastest AMD has put out to date. Given that they also have the most processing cores, this isn't exactly surprising, but otherwise there haven't been that many major changes since the last generation of CPUs. One of the most significant is that processors in the Phenom II X6 family support AMD's new Turbo CORE technology. Like Intel's own Turbo Boost, Turbo CORE can "deactivate" unused or underutilized processing cores in order to boost the performance of the others. In the case of the Phenom II X6 chips, a minimum of three cores to "shut off" are required.

 ExtremeTech has the full Review, go check 'em out.