"Core Microarchitecture has been around over a year but it's only now that Intel is introducing a four-socket solution. In our first look at current and upcoming server propositions for the enterprise market, we check out the fastest Tigerton Xeon CPU, the X7350, and the one with the lowest power draw, the X7345, to try to see if these strong CPU cores can overcome the disadvantage of an ageing system-interconnect design"