Quote Originally Posted by ceevee View Post
clock for clock Nehalem is going to be huge

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.