Meh, I could run 2x2 on my H8DCE now. If I had wads of money, that is.

Seriously though, "dual socket"? I suppose these days dual CPU isn't distinguishable enough from dual core so we get new and interesting coinage like this. I just love the major attitude shift in the benefit of dual execution units brought by AMD's dual-core processors. I mean, some people have been using "dual socket" for years, appreciating its performance and spreading the gospel that this sort of performance can be useful to normal people beyond business applications (e.g. gaming) but with few converts. Now everyone has whet their appetite with dual-core and wants what we've had all along: more holes to plug CPUs in.

I'm fairly certain there's a diminishing returns curve associated with Cost vs Performance with number of cores and processors. I would be interested to see it so I can know if blowing beaucoup of money on a computer Hydra is really worth it.

-drasnor