It's Peek not Peak. Kids of today...

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

then why don't they build mutli-core cpu's that "appear" to be single core cpu's? This would give the benefit of more processing power without needing to re-write all the sofware to take advantage of the cores.

Contact me via The Inq if you want to patent this ;-)

I could of sworn the new Xeon Nehalems were based upon DDR3 and used a entire new socket based upon 1366.

Yet the Lenovo computer on the link is showing DDR2 667 MHZ??

"A ThinkStation D10 workstation, based on the Xeon E5540 processor, was also spotted on Provantage..."

But looking at the specs, the motherboard does *not* seem to take advantage of the triple-channel I7 memory controller--only 8 slots, and memory options come in *pairs*. I'm underwhelmed.

Take a look here for a comparison:
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=532 Yes, that's right, dual Xeon setup (2 quad processors) can easily beat quad Opteron setup (4 quad processors).