Intel Core i7 940@3.2Ghz CPU Performance Tested
 

Compared to a Core 2 Duo E8500 and QX9770 in a series of encoding, 3D and 2D benchmarks; wonder why they didn't run at stock speeds... most likely in order to match the performance of the i7 965 XE high end $999 CPU which runs at 3.2Ghz.

http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=4243

as expected, games are GPU limited :)