Gigabyte X48 DQ6 and QX9770 under cascade.

[George_o/c]

sheesh 5ghz is crazy and its a quad core, so let me get this straight that setup is 20ghz of computer power?? I wonder if you can take it any higher.

Ain't like that ... You don't multiply the frequency of the cpu with the cores to find the total power ... It's 5GHz and that's all
Nevertheless, that doesn't mean they don't have power ... For instance when you are simultaneously running several processor-intensive single/dual-threaded applications on the quad-core, or even video editing programms, you can easily understand the huge difference between a quad core and a dual core (A single core is not even worth mentioning when compared to the above mentioned )
Try comparing a QX9650 @ 5GHz with a P4 Prescott 3.4GHz Hyper-Threading @ 5GHz ... Vast difference between these too ... Not only as far as the MIPS and the MFLOPS are concerned, but also regarding multi-threaded applications !
Hope you got it