Mac Pros with Quad-Core Processors?

[forevergone]

Do the Intel XEON Procesors that the Mac Pros consist of, use up one socket? Or is it two dual cores using separate sockets? I'm just curious if this is actually legitimately the first quadcore processor to hit the market as I have been contemplating of getting one.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

It's two dual-core processors, so two sockets -- one dual-core processor per socket.

There isn't a quad-core processor on the market yet. The first quad-core chip is expected in early 2007:

http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[fryke]

(IBM's POWER series, of course, already had quad core processors. But those aren't desktop chips exactly...)