Eight cores pictured at 3GHz

For roughly $1000 you will get a single quad-core Xeon and if you double the money you will get twice as much. We saw the machine based on two 5300 series quad-core Xeons and Intel's motherboard and 8500 chipset. We saw it up and running and we even had a chance to play with a machine for a while.

It handles nicely and has the best Cinebench 9.5 score we even seen, it does the job with eight cores in just 11 seconds. It is significantly faster than a single Kentsfield quad-core or AMDs 4x4.

3Dmark06 CPU score is at 6089, again the fastest we've seen. It was all running with 2GB of memory on a Windows XP. We also saw Half life 2 particle benchmark and this thing was also super-fast compared to anything we've seen so far.

Back to availability if you use 2.66 GHz quad-core Xeons you can buy and put it all together today. We have some cool pictures to prove the claims. Intel insists that the FSB is never a bottleneck and from the test we've seen it sounds about right.

Eight cores from two Clovertowns

Server motherboard and two Xeons at 3GHz each inside

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