^ 2.4GHz is the first ES, so expect at least another 533MHz on that so make it 2.93GHz.
Remember the i5 ES? 2.13GHz with HT, when it comes out, it'll be 2.93GHz.
but anyway, I'd guess that gulftown will have a 0.25 higher IPC so clock for clock, gulftown @ 2.93GHz will be close to the i7 950 in performance in single threaded tasks. and then beat anything out there in tasks which can use 9 or more threads.
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back on topic - hard to make any type of judgement on them without seeing what they are doing to it. I am holding off on gulftown for them hopefully they will have a noticeable performance increase. However I will be buying whichever chip makes sense for the money i will be spending.. ( currently e7200 @ 4.03Ghz on air )
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