what I took issue with was the statement that this ES was faster than any Penryn today.
Quick example:
Nehalem result vs. stock qx9770 result (with terrible RAM settings)
this is not a clock/clock comparison.
let them shut down SMT and see if it is clock/clock faster and for cinebench with a mem controller it doesn't matter how good or bad the settings are it is cache related where nehalem puts a nice score.
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