Quote Originally Posted by Particle View Post
Be careful. You can't really overclock with these boards, and your CPUs aren't going to have that high of clock speeds. I had a dual Istanbul setup on a dual-NB SR5690 board a while back. It did pretty well at threaded work, but I eventually replaced it a year and a half later when Thuban came out. An overclocked Thuban was just about as fast in threaded work as my 12-core machine was and ungodly faster in single threaded stuff, which is important for games.
Agreed, but remember BD is going to have Turbo, even in server parts (correct?), so it wil help in more casual PC usage scenarios.