Ah, now I see ... no you don't

Blades, blades - nah pal, these processors are destined for proper systems, not the pile 'em dense and see 'em cheap brigade.

According to all the docs I've seen the Power6's use the same power (or less?) than the p5/p5+ equivalent. Hence I would have thought that the heat production of the new processors would be equivalent to the older kit, heck with the clockdown/power-off function for parts of the p6, you might even find it's heating the datacentre less.

Itanic? Ha! I still find it incredible that a company that can produce something so good as the Core family still make something so incredibly average.

I'll be looking forward to getting my Power6 kit, and fascinated to see what riposte Sun will issue to the Power6 line - we live in interesting times!