In the review I read they were talking about a price of $2500AUD for the I7 CPU.
That's fairly expensive in my book. (My e8500 which was fairly new when I got it cost $390AUD)
It's Performace dominates in multi threaded applications though on a single core the rewiew said it was only marginly better than a E8600 at stock speeds (Cinebench bench mark 4250 points v's 4150)
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Review/1...7-extreme.aspx