i7's beat an Intel Core 2 Quad on price for sure (mid-range cpu). It'll be a while before we start to offer them here, but from a memory standpoint alone, the i7's look very promising! Bye Bye FSB

In terms of comparing raw performance on various processors, I recently found the site cpubenchmark.net. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this site and knows if the CPUMark and PassMark numbers are trustworthy.

Ive found the quad core processors are the best for the value, i can pack most shared quad core box's with at least 1500-2100 accounts depending on hdd configs.

Dedicated server customers seem to be taking to the quad-core processors well. They are very affordable in regards to price compared tot he dual-core setups.

I am running a quad-core with 4 gb on my desktop I'm typing this from. Our servers are quad-core too.

Quad cores are good value I must admit, not too sure on the I7’s just yet after road testing them a bit more that might change but who knows.

That said to match the performance of my current rig with an I7 would be costly (dual quad core (4GHz x8) with 16gb ddr3) so I’m not yet sold. Although that may change as the prices come down and the over clocking attempts go up

Conor I would love to know how much power that beast of a server is pulling!!!!

We have been using quad cores in servers for a while now - you gotta love them

Intel I7's also look promising however it will be a while before we start offering them

That is a very nice setup you have there. I would love that setup for my office server.

That machine must scream. I can hear it in Saint Louis. LOL

Fortunately not it is the first and only pc I own to use liquid nitrogen cooling, it can run at around -3 to -4 if ramped up with what I would consider a standard case, fortunately Intel have a large office within walking distance of my home within Swindon (UK) giving me the chance to talk to the Intel guys from time to time and go direct for support or hardware problems as a quick beer usually sweetens the deal

As they're often testing various things out in there some of which they wont disucss other things they will obviously

we offer them aswell and they are about 40% faster then the dual core's
and yes the i7 is already available also with us and in our testing they are super nice
and now we can sell them at $227 a month so its good and affordable

When we started offering quad, we were a little skeptical as most customers are looking for lower end.
But what do you know, we actually sold 2 with another order on the way.

All I can says is there are customers at both end of the long tail

Quad-core performs great on my server.

WOW, 32 GB RAM! That's a mighty fine machine you got there.

All that power just for one site? Is your client NewEgg!?

OMG 32GB Ram for a website must be a large one.

Yeah, 32GB is a lot of ram for just one website...Their monthly bill must be huge lol