New Xeon CPU Hot and Underpowered

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 21, 2005 @10:34PM from the more-tweaking-needed dept.

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.'"

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Troll! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-21 22:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:400W? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-21 23:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

1.4 liter German car? Do they make those? Does even Volkswagen have anything smaller than 1.8?
Re:400W? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-22 00:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The smallest engine in the popular VW Golf has 1.4l displacement. The smallest motorization of the Smart Fortwo Coupe has 0.8l displacement.