Intel ships 4.4 Ghz Westmere dual-cores.

[lutjens]

First you say sandy bs are doing 3.4 and totally missed where the boost to 3.8 on there own trying to say that most chips don't clock over 4.6 and now you say a gamer dosnt overclock.

All I said was who cares about a 4.4 server chip when you can game at 5ghz+ with a 225 dollar sandy b

There are many advantages to this chip:
1) Memory capacity. One can easily run 192GB at full speed with 12x 16GB DIMMs at 1333MHz with these.
2) The ability to run in pretty much any server board. One could buy these, underclock them and have a very cool running server. With the dual QPI links, these chips can be also be run in a dual IOH motherboard providing incredible I/O capability and many, many PCI lanes.
3) Two of these chip will still allow you to run 8 threads...still very decent multithreading ability at a very high clock speed.
4) Total reliability at said clock speed....they're Xeons....enough said...