More Sandy Bridge performance numbers (+Rumoured Pricing)

[-Sweeper_]

Some thoughts:
Unless Intel has some really bad arse bin's in mind for SB they may have issues with keeping up with the last generation at least at the top end.
I don't see anything so far that will match a dual X5670 or X5680 running at 4200 on air in a EVGA SR2 board for pure computational power with the exception of a quad socket Beckton X7560 32 core machine and thats over $20,000.00 so that takes it out of the picture.
Now I know thats probably less than 1/10 of 1% of potential sales but this XS and we look for the best available.

hexa-core and octo-core models (high-end client & server 1p/2p) are coming later, more like Q3/2011...