New Xeon CPU Hot and Underpowered

Kasracer writes "Web Sites The Register and GamePC received several of the new dual-core processors from Intel, dubbed 'Paxville', and ran a battery of tests on them. What did they find? From the article: 'There's no doubt about it, Intel's dual-core Xeons are their most power hungry Xeons to date ... Even when idling, two dual-core Xeons consume nearly 400W of power at any given time, which is amazingly high, even by Intel's standards ... their new dual-core chips (while powerful in their own right) simply are bested across the board by AMD's dual-core Opteron processors. Even worse, the Opterons typically perform much better while running at slower clock speeds and only having half the amount of on-die L2 cache to utilize.'"

Comments

oh my god.

[imsabbel]

The _last_ intel CPU a few days ago was already found hot and underpowered by gamePc.
That means this _new_ intel CPU really must be craptastic...

Re:oh my god.

[kjots]

> While I expect the benchmark results to be fairly accurate, news sites and games sites don't really strike me as the best for reviewing chips for the server market.

That's a nice sentiment, but I would prefer to believe that Intel has lost it (It's just more entertaining this way!).

The King (*cough*intel*chough*) is Dead, Long Live the King (*sniff*amd*cough*)!

AMD's new ad campaign

[Anonymous Coward]

Paris Hilton looking an Intel Inside sticker and saying "That's hot."

400W?

[danharan]

That's going to be the SUV of its category. Big, ugly, inefficient design catering to those who desperately need the ego boost.

It will hopefully die (yeah, bad pun) a very prompt death.

Re:400W?

[gringer]

All it needs is to be powered by gasoline, and it'll be sold quicker than a 6th generation iPod.

Re:400W?

[FlopEJoe]

I think it would be cheeper to buy a t-shirt that says, "I have a small penis."

Re:400W?

[grazzy]

I took the liberty to translate some of your sentences.

People spend a long time on the roads commuting. SUV's are high off the ground and comfortable. This is important, many people spend more time in their SUV's than they do with their families.

Some people should get a divorce.

SUV's are also particularly comfortable if you're overweight.

So fat people can fit their fat asses in the car.

The engines are good for acceleration, low and high end. It makes up in part for the automatic transmission.

Some people cant drive.

You need the automatic transmission so that you can eat your breakfast or speak on the cell phone while in traffic. It's also less frustrating in a traffic jam. You need the acceleration to be able to cut people off on the roads, and the height lets you see over sedans.

So the fat people can get fatter.

Finally, relatively speaking, gas is cheap in the U.S.

Our president has bombed enough arab states for the oil to be cheap, relatively speaking to the number of dead arabs.

Re:400W?

[Jeremi]

but there havw been times my honda accord couldn't cut the mustard and I wish I had one

You're in luck -- with an Honda, there's no need to buy a more powerful car. Instead, just add decals until it's fast enough.

Heat

[titla1k]

So they're a little bit hot, I see that as a good thing. Now you can cook breakfast on your case, without ever having to move!

400w?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sweet zombie Jesus, the heatsink must have fins like a '57 DeSoto! At 400w and using it 24/7 will make the cops think you're running a grow-op.

Re:oh well

[Spacejock]

When all their 350w power supplies melt.

Bring on the winter!

[WidescreenFreak]

I don't understand what all of the fuss is about. With systems that generate this much heat, I want to buy one just because it will probably be cheaper to heat my house with a dual Xeon system than with heating oil, considering current fuel prices! I can simultaneously have the benefit of running one hell of a Battlefield 2, Half-Life 2, or SETI@Home system! Then when summer arrives I can switch back to my cooler AMD X2 system, thus saving money on cooling bills as well!

AND after playing BF2 for an hour or so the top of the case will be ready to cook up some chicken and steak tips! Introducting the new Intel, dual-Zeon, charcoal-less hibachi system!

Come on! You guys need to look at the positives of having such hot CPUs!

hypertransport bus

[246o1]

I used to take the hypertransport bus to school, it's not all it's cracked up to be. Especially when you have two(!) hypertransfers.