Intel’s new Core i7 chip has been showing up in tons of silly-spec’d high-end gaming rigs for about three days now, so it’s obviously day to get bored and move on — and right on cue, TechRadar’s got the first benchmarks we’ve seen of the upcoming dual-processor Nehalem EP platform. The secret pop quiz machine featured two 2.8GHz Nehalem EP chips (likely to hit retail in 2009 as the Xeon X5560) and 24GB of 1,066MHz DDR3 RAM controlled by the new Quick Path Interconnect and on-die memory controllers, which together cranked out a SPECfp base rate of 160 — way above the 90 posted by current 3.4GHz Xeon setups, and higher than the 105 scored by a 2.7GHz

dual-processor rig with AMD’s new Shanghai chips. Yeah, that’s foolish fast, and it’s bound to get even faster when these not good boys launch with a 3.2GHz part along for the ride. Now whether Intel could just siphon some of that speed into these pokey Atoms we can actually afford, we’d be grins-a-plenty.

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Original post by Nilay Patel