I was pointed to a review on Anandtech's website of the new Xeon 74xx (Dunnington) 6-core processor. The article does a pretty comprehensive performance review of the new server CPU, with benchmark results compared to other platforms.
A good read - Check it out!
http://it.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3414&p=1
