We grabbed a pair of 2.4GHz Clovertown samples and tossed them in the system, and to our pleasure, they worked just fine.  Our samples used a 1066MHz FSB, although we’re expecting the final chip to use a 1333MHz FSB, but the most important part of the test is that all 8 cores were detected and functional.

They used a pair of pre-release samples, but when the retail ones are released it could be fun.  They couldn’t give us any true benchmarks because of the pre-release nature, but they did say that they were unable to max out the processors.