"Harpertown" Dual Quad 3.0 vs. "Nehalem" Dual Quad 2.26?

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Well the title says it all. What is the performance comparison between a dual quad (8 core) 3.0 GHZ older mac pro "Harpertown" vs. a newer "Nehalem"/ "Gainstown" that is running slower with dual quad processors (8 core) at 2.26 GHZ?

I would be using this for Final Cut Pro/ Video editing and for rendering with Apple Motion.

I have a dual quad 2.26 Nehalem with tons of memory and it does not quite shred the video editing, I am wondering if a major increase in processor speed to 3.0 would improve things. Yet the older processors lack HT right?

Also I have access to cheap dual quad 3.0s ($1500 or so).

So just asking for your opinions out there.
 

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Further Geekbench reports the Harpertown 3.0GHzreturns a score of 7977 compared to the Gainestown 2.26GHz score of 11803.

Stick with the 2.26GHz machine or even better if they are available, go up to the Gainestown 2.66GHz processors.
 

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