Christopher Chan wrote: > Anandtech did some testing last quarter where they compared what appears > to be the best quad socket Intel solution against the best dual socket > Intel solution and the dual socket solution ran circles around the quad > in some tests and pretty much matches it in other tests. > thats largely because the current generation quad socket processors are still using last generation CPU cores, the current dual socket are the new I7/nehalem cores, which are inherently a lot faster.