1. Why does it matter what is reported?
2. Subtle stealth brag.
3. Will my r9 290x run crysis 1?

 

Now, now don't be to harsh on the guy maybe he just want to know a bit more about his processor .

why does dolphin say i have something like 16 cores? while the device manager show's 12 processors?

Because the Processor actually has 6 cores and 12 threads, dolphin isn't really designed with that many cores in mind, neither are Xeon that much used in gaming so that must be why it reports a bit unusual.

what exactly is the x5650 based off of?? i've used a intel i7 920 and 940 and there weren't no where near as fast as this $100 lga 1366 chip i bought on ebay...

why does cpuz say this is a 3066mhz chip??

Its based on the Westmere the 32 nm Nehalem die shrink, and an aquivilant to its shared architecture is the Core i7 980X. As for CPU-Z its probably because turbo is activated, while the CPU has a frequency of 2.66 Ghz with Turbo activated in can go up to 3.06 Ghz.