Intel Xeon 5570: Smashing SAP records.

[Shintai]

I have to manage few 2U servers at work I know their powerfull and noisy fan's . Of course you get the heat easy out off the case. Still have to cool down the server room.

What do you compare here X5400 or L5400 with 5500? Do you take the gains caused by no longer using fbdimm's into account?
Shanghai's are a differnt story. I did not go barcelona on the server side, neighter 5400. Need a new dual socket server this year so I'm on a lookout. I'd prefere amd because otherwise I'd loose live migration possibility or pefromance i'f id run vm's in an compatible mode.

I got 2 5500 series systems. One 3.2Ghz high performance and one 2.26Ghz low voltage (With turbomode). They both use less. And they are compared directly with the previous counter parts from the same OEM. (LV 5400 was 2.33Ghz tho).

Its both due to FB-DIMMs but also chipset. And in performance they are simply a monster. So more or less twice the computational power and alittle lower power consumption. Its regular 1.5V DDR3. Not lowpower 1.35V. They didnt have them yet.

And remember your servers fanspeed can easily cheat due to temperature in the serverroom. They are always overcooling. And noise is different between OEMs. HP servers tend to make alot mroe noise at the same temperature than Dell etc. But ye, if needed the fans can go between 11500 and 14000rpm.