Quote Originally Posted by nemrod View Post
It's only to show an improvement and give a reason to buy. Qx9700 cost 1399$.

example:
* Intel Xeon E5405 : 2 GHz - 12 Mo cache L2 - FSB 1 333 MHz - TDP 80 Watts
* Intel Xeon E5410 : 2,33 GHz - 12 Mo cache L2 - FSB 1 333 MHz - TDP 80 Watts
* Intel Xeon E5420 : 2,50 GHz - 12 Mo cache L2 - FSB 1 333 MHz - TDP 80 Watts
* Intel Xeon E5430 : 2,66 GHz - 12 Mo cache L2 - FSB 1 333 MHz - TDP 80 Watts
* Intel Xeon E5440 : 2,83 GHz - 12 Mo cache L2 - FSB 1 333 MHz - TDP 80 Watts
* Intel Xeon E5450 : 3,0 GHz - 12 Mo cache L2 - FSB 1 333 MHz - TDP 80 Watts
* Intel Xeon X5460 : 3,16 GHz - 12 Mo cache L2 - FSB 1 333 MHz - TDP 120 Watts

Do you really believe that x5460 has suddently 40W higher consumption? In fact tdp should be around 85W if there was more categories of thermal solution...
I don't understand why you want to believe that marketing who are 10x more deceiving than us would rather make a very schoolboy loss by saying 130W/136W/150W TDP when it should actually be 80W. Can you honestly give me a plausible reason why they would do that? What do they gain from it? Honestly I don't know what makes you say that or why if you're thinking logically.

FWIW, if you didn't know then let me tell you that overclocking RIPS the TDP to shreds. AND overclocking inside a typical computer case +90% of the world uses gets me 20C higher temps on a core than outside a case with 10C air and 10x 100CFM delta fans.

Also, please, always look at 3+ set of results and then compare to get values of what you think are correct. Taking any one over the other is going to give you wrong values. Intel QX9650 1.2V stock, load power consumption of CPU - actual VDC draw (mostly by CPU): http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==




The server lineup is always the best CPUs of each MFG, they are more stringently tested, lower TDPs and higher binned cores. Why? TDP rating matters in that segment immensely. Now I'm not going to take further part in babbling the obvious, nemrod, it gets us no where.