Canterwood running dualie Xeons

FallOutBoyTonto

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<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html#095312" target="_new">Tom's Hard News</A> mentioned this story that came from <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/31909.html" target="_new">The Register</A>.

I'm surprised no one else posted this piece of news here. <A HREF="http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=PC-DL Deluxe&langs=01" target="_new">Here are the specs</A> for the Asus mobo that was built around the i875P chipset to run dual Xeons. It offers AGP 8x Pro; HyperThreading and PAT support; eight USB 2.0 ports and a single 1394 port; dual-channel ATA/133 and Serial ATA support. I wonder how Intel is going to react to this? Any thoughts?
 

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I've seen it! I wanted to post a thread on that... But you did so first. Congrats. :smile:

Anyway, I think this is good news. It's been a while since ASUS produced dual Intel processor-based mobos... And being canterwood, the PC-DL might cost less than the usual 400±50 for a quality workstation board for Xeons. Coupled with the new 3.06Ghz 1MB L3 and the great price reductions from Intel, I'd say Intel is battling Opteron in the workstation market. And they are using interesting weaponry... Long live competition - we get better and cheaper products, workstation market included.

I wonder how the PC-DL performs against the old workstation chipset, the E7505...

<font color=red><b>M</b></font color=red>ephistopheles
 

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