Desktop (Build date 10/2008):
Intel Pentium 4 630, 3000 MHz
Intel Cherry Creek
Triple boot Vista 7 / XP / Ubuntu
4 GB
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024 MB (added 2010)
Creative Audigy 2 Value (SB0400) Sound Card
3x (80 GB), 1x (465 GB) (added 2010)
21.5" Samsung (added 2010)
Fan - junk I can't remeber the name of, replacing soon

Laptop :
Intel i3 2.27 GHz
Vista 7 64-bit
4 GB
380 GB

wasn't ivy bridge planned for '12? Bulldozer is pushed back another month or two...

Also, cores =! threads. Gaming performance relies heavily on how the game uses the cores and/or threads available to it.

I'm hearing Q3/Q4 for Ivy.

and Correct, that's why I said the reason the dually outperforms the quad is obvious.

i5 750 + HD5850 +8gigs of ram.