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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First Dupe! by syylk · 2005-10-22 02:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

Well, the dupe times are improving. This time, only three days.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/19/142624 0&tid=118
DUPE? by cprice · 2005-10-22 03:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

Didnt I see this story sometime mid last week?
Goldfish Memory by segedunum · 2005-10-22 05:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

Come on. I have an absolutely terrible memory, but even I can see that this is a dupe.