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Intel Prices "Penryn" Xeons

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Intel's latest roadmap reveals pricing for its upcoming Penryn-based Xeon DP processors. The costs for Penryn-based Xeon DP processors start at $177 and top out at $1,172.
Intel has two Penryn-based quad-core Xeon DP processors under $300. The quad-core Xeon DP E5405 starts out at $209. The $209 price tag yields a quad-core Xeon DP processor clocked in the 2.0 GHz range, but below 2.33 GHz, with 12MB of L2 cache. Putting forth an extra $47 gets you the quad-core Xeon DP E5410 with its 2.33 GHz clock speed.

As the clock speed increases, the price gaps between quad-core Xeon models get larger. Intel prices the 2.50 GHz quad-core Xeon DP E5420 at $316. Stepping up to the next speed-bin comes at a $139 cost, for the 2.66 GHz quad-core Xeon E5430. The quad-core Xeon DP E5440 and its 2.83 GHz clock speed comes in at $690 -- $235 more than the E5430 with a 170 MHz lower clock speed.

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3.16 ghz stock cooling :eek:. That's actually kinda impressive 120 watt tdp which is the same as a 3ghz verision (65nm). 45nm is looking good especally for oc'ing.
 
Those are some damn cheap prices. Are the Xeons good for gaming like AMDs Opterons?
 
Those are some damn cheap prices. Are the Xeons good for gaming like AMDs Opterons?

They're Core 2's under a different name. So yeah, however the chipsets that support it aren't that good, and I believe they run Buffered Ram.
 
buy the cheapest with watter cooling kit and OC it :)
 
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