Chipsets won't really be an issue.
The memory controller is going to be onboard, leaving just a southbridge linked via hypertransport to worry about. If current releases from NVidia are any hint of what may be to come, they'll be coming out the gate will some awesome chipsets.
Besides, they'll have had well over a year to flesh them out before release. Many manufacturers have had things ready since spring that would be parallel to the early XP chipsets. We'll be up and running from day one.
Hyperthreading will be 0wned by the bandwidth that hypertransport offers. Memory speed will be 0wned by the onboard controller. 64 bit optimization will give at least another 10% speed, and in many cases (look at UT2K3), over 25%. Independant memory allocation per CPU will also 0wn shared memory.
A dually hammer, come release time, will murder any dually Xeon, and I'd wager my next paycheck on it. There is no way Inhell can overcome the limitations of the Xeon platform to compete with what will come as a revolutionary step in server technology.
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