Intel Xeon 5570: Smashing SAP records.

[Shintai]

What type of server software needs this hardware speed? How many concurrent users (employees) do you think need to be using the server before it will have trouble to handle the load?
What is the idle power for i7

Well, since AMD people have shouted virtualization sicne Core 2 Xeons. Lets try that. Else there is PLENTY of DB applications. Webservices, terminal services etc. Plus in all the cases where you would buy a quad socket machine. You just get a Xeon 5500 based one.

And the idle power....seriously. You are trolling gosh.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=3453&p=3
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15818/14
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu..._18.html#sect0

Its nothing you cant find on your own. But there is a reason you got 10% of the posts here.

Can Intel turn of one or more cores and sell it as X3, X2 etc with this design?

I dont see why not. But Intel earlier said such things would be scrapped. AMDs reason to do so was horrible process manufactoring mixed with a very large diesize.

And there is no such CPUs like those on Intels nehalem roadmaps. There are 3 core designs. Bloomfield, Lynnfield and Havendale.