once again, you just have to love the chinese, i don't know if they aren't covered by nda's or simply don't give a flying f**k, but check out these benchmarks:

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http...rUrl=Translate

i have to say that i am not impressed at all by the numbers i'm seeing, yes i know that lynnfield cpu's haven't been released yet but the official release data is only about a month away so we can't attribute this performance to early silicon and/or beta drivers.

as it stands now, assuming these numbers hold up, and i expect them to do so, one would much better off buying a Q9550 and overclocking it or even better buying a cheap E8400 and over clocking it to about 4 ghz and saving a bunch of money.

of perhaps one of these is a better solution:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815122014&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&c...tek-_-15122014

here's a review, with image quality comparison:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1590

as you guys can see they tested it against the xeon variant of a Q9300, overclocked to 3ghz and the spurs engine card proved to be about 3 times faster. interestingly enough the badaboom application was just as fast as spurs, the only thing is that badaboom doesn't do mpeg-2 encoding nor does it have the level of customization that tmpg does.