Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
If one can't OC nehalem, then why getting one? ...unless early 2 GHz Nehalem is faster than 3.8-4.2 GHz Core2Quad.

...which I doubt.
The slowest model will be 2.66GHz and what Intel Quad Cores overclock to 3.8 to 4.2GHz right now? Current models might need about a 400MHz head start.