I think the real idea is 4 cpus on one board. But for just over 8 times the price of the cpu, you can have a brand new 8000 series Quad core and instead of having 4 cores total on your new system, now a total of 16 cores would be your end result.

Hmm now how big is my pocket and just how much can I afford? Now for a little math - 1 core times $35 equals one lonely cpu on a large MB made for 4 cpu's. 4 cores time $35 equals $140 one one MB. Now we enter the new Quad Cores at the lowest price I can find. $832 each cpu or 4 cores in one package which brings us to $208 per core, so 4 quads priced at $832 each on one board comes to $3328 without the board is starting to get confusing here, am I making any sense in this conversation yet?

The board will cost somewhere similar to with prices ranging from $750 to $1,500 putting the total cost of such a monster at nearly $5,000. Now where did the 8 times come in? I don't know what I was thinking, but 16 times the output seems more entertaining when you can get all this output in one package that draws less then 600 watts total. ( Thinking with a tint of Green in my blood - less power drain better for the environment)

BY the way $35 times 8 = $280 not $208, I am saving my pennies for this illustrious day when I can afford to replace my existing single dual core for one of these...somehow my math is off in never never land. I have to recheck my thinking, some way I have error ed, my god I am fallible.