Socket 1567 Xeon Nehalem-EX

[duploxxx]

Yet another Intel thread ran down by AMD marketing, Come on.

as if you are any different in other threads

Even this is entertaining for us, come on guys, don't use flawed technical arguments. I said in a previous post that if shutting down half the memory reduced the power from 1000W to 900W, shutting down the rest won't reduce it by just another 100W but more, because idle memory consumes much less than active memory. Other than that, let's assume a system with 4 CPU's, a server motherboard, a few drives and a few fans consume 800W. A SCSI drive takes up to 20W, a high-power fan up to 15W, substract a few of each from the 800, substract a few more W for the various motherboard integrated stuff, then multiply everything with 0.9 (wich is a fair efficiency figure for the CPU PWM circuit), and you might end up just where you should.

On the other hand, in the testing done by us and also other hardware review websites, i haven't seen figures for the power consumption that would be far off the rated TDP.

Fully agree, but then again the system was more or less idle, only running few VM's, perhaps they totally disabled any other power saving feature in the bios.

I really wonder if there are already so many review sites that have Nehalem EX for testing purpose, highly doubt it

I'm kinda curious how this will turn out. By the way I see it this platform sits between the current x86 setups and the Itanium systems. I think it will do well but only time will tell. HP has some nice systems coming up on this platform, on which I cannot really say much, other than they are true beasts!!! Will try to post some info on XS when the NDA lifts on them...

looking at the HP lineup you don't need a wizard to try and find out what types they will bring with EX.. very obvious, those "beasts" are already existing yet off course with different chipsets and architectures, EX will just replace existing intel 4s+ offerings and create new ones where these days only AMD was offered within the HP portfolio.