Just browsing our servers today and looking at the task managers on each. I love having powerful servers. Below is a screenshot from our server hosting SQL Server 2005. It is a dual quad core Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 GHz, giving a total of 8 cores. Loaded up to 4 GB of RAM…it pretty much just sails away with Christopher Cross. Our file server is a similar setup. Good stuff!

8 Cores (2 quad core Xeons)