Well, we never did and probably never will. Not only the product would have to be absolutely perfect, but it'd cause an horrible overdose of alcohol huh.

Jokes aside, 9 out of 10 - a fantastic score by itself - is about the right thing for this near perfect uber-baby. If it also had unlocked multipliers, a better mobo than this Supermicro, and ran my Kingston HyperX at six channels of DDR3-2000, hey I'd break the rule and give it 10 out of 10.

Worshipful Imbiber Drashek! Take that!

BTW: Why does a product without bads and uglies get 9 kegs out of 10? Is it the fear of hangover??

Does this seem differnt than Barcelona Launch? where 1/4 of previous generation was ?toupee'r. This Nahalem stuff looks good, yet Give Me My Filet Of Fish & Give Me Bloomfield, For 2 Billion Level of Transistor interconnect.Give Me My drashek.?STeWie

Guys, as I mentioned in the story, it's 3 grand for a pair, not one, CPU. So the price per CPU, at $ 1.6K, is just a tad higher than the extreme Core i7.

What he said! Take that Dashek. A gauntlet across thy face.

Just why is Chentilla the Hun, such a raucous provocateur?__ Excommunicating paramours faster than Henry the Eighth? Does not Chintela fear the jolly-big-blue sleeping giant? afoot?

STiLL! Chipzillla is embroiled in rows so bad, I got my stick out! Why no bravado? Why so insecure? Jealously accursing every suitor for being a double-bagger, and out to put the kibosh on all their prozxzy nick-nab hooky!

For jack all! There must be land-ho on the horizon that's not all there.

Else, nowt be wrong with getting the nod, nudge-nudge, wink-wink and an easy touch. Only now, Chimpkong and Nvcheetah get dicky-bird owt.

If one says so it’s yes, more or less, absoblutely, that brand of woo who’ve been brewin’ all fur-coat and no yo-yo knickers!

Nehalem-EP has a face like the hind-end of a bus. Other Jen blag artistes will find it hard shlepp to keep pecker up.

Browned-off pretenders are having a brown trouser moment, nous the bum's rush off the bus by the snooty clippie with her double-Xeon beamers dead heat in a Zeppelin race! They all should be deffo dischuffed by now, they be offered out.

However; we're told they'll be taken away by the gypsies if they continued in their bad behaviour. Tick Tock will clock their cobblers cob on!

All of these reported crimes we can safely say are not carnival related, rest asshoured the public, that the carnival has been totally crime free for the umpteenth year running....!

All PC and IP freely.

975 will still be 1100 as 965, I think. They've never priced consumer processors that high.

I'd love to see AMD quad Istanbul (24 cores) setup compete with Intel dual Nehalem (8 cores) setup. Maybe AMD can close the gap a bit with it. LOL

Yessss - the Ugly is the price - I think that the 975 will be same as this Xeon - wow $3,000 for a chip is a loT of mula in deed and if you have a skulltrail platform wow $6,000 (2 CPU's) for the CPU upgrade lol!

Now... what to do with it ? Strap some Tripe SLI NVidia Cards on 'em ? Oops... no go. Which begs the question; larrabee where art thou ?

Impressive rig nonetheless.

Oh, btw this is quite an impressive platform for those who can afford it. More power to you rich son of a guns.

Uh.. I don't agree with the ugly part. PRICE! Oh wait, you're right.. they're giving these away free. Maybe I could sell my children into slavery to afford this platform and new stepping CPUs. Granted, nothing in the server market is *cheap*, but not everyone has an unlimited tech budget. Well not in the USA anyway, since our economy is teh suck. Maybe wIntel has an expanding market in what Palin would call the country of Africa.