Intel ships 4.4 Ghz Westmere dual-cores.

[m^2]

what are you talking about?

a 2500k turbos to 3.7ghz and a 2600k turbos to 3.8ghz stock.

so are you saying that most sandy bs cant go past 3.3ghz?

Im benching at 5.3ghz my friend,take a look around as most 2600k are all benching over 5.3ghz and some have hit the 56x multy as there limiter.

a sandybridge boosts to 3.8 on its own,there is no overclocking done at all

I didn't bother to search for turbo speed because it doesn't matter for the sake of comparison - you'd be pressed to find any workload where stock SB would win with a pair of stock X5698s and that was the point.