Quote Originally Posted by Shadowmage View Post
I think that this was a platform issue which has since been fixed.
Yeah --- my general opinion is that a) with early samples be it Deneb or Nehalem, while interesting, should be taken with some skepticism since pre-production engineering samples may or may not be actually representative of final performance, and b) in gaming Nehalem may prove to show substantial benefit in gaming code for some or even most games, but at conditions that most people play those benefits will not be noticeable.

The advantage to choosing nehalem would be more for future proofing, if anything, perhaps to pair with faster GPUs as they become available.