Intel ships 4.4 Ghz Westmere dual-cores.

[DarthShader]

No chance, ATM yes but when we can finally utilize more cores not a chance!

But there's no "more" cores in the chips this topic is about.

Now imagine how a similar chip would perform clocked at >30% higher and with six memory channels (albeit slow ECC) vs two on the SB. At stock speed there would be no contest. Overclocking is pure speculation at this point, but clearly these chips would clock at least a little higher than the SB ones.

There's no six memory channels there, they are not working together on memory reads. And there is additional latency when communicating between the dies. While SB cores have a fast ring bus at their disposal.

Any SR-2 and SB owner willing to do gaming tests with two X5698 ?