Intel Ships Pentium 350 For Servers
The Pentium 350 is based on the Sandy Bridge core sans graphics and is for socket LGA1155 and C202 or C204 chipsets.
While we do not have detailed information about this CPU, the specs of the dual-core chip closely match those of the 2.2 GHz Pentium G620T, but supports Hyperthreading as well as ECC DRAMs. There is no information on price, but we expect that Intel will charge a premium over the $70 620T and position the chip well below the cheapest Xeon processors, which currently sell for $167 (E3110, 45 nm, 3 GHz). It is interesting to note that the TDP of this Pentium is just 15 watts, which makes this CPU the lowest power server CPU in Intel's lineup. The current 32 nm Xeon L-series is rated at 40 watts.
The Pentium 350 does not support VT-d and Trusted Execution.
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Useful for a web server perhaps?
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No chance... without VT-d?
if it is as detailed in this article, it would be a home run.
I suggest you find out what VT_d is. It is not VT_x, which is the important one.
Doesn't matter, the more virtualization the better. However, it might turn out to be not really necessary if you're not running some complex hosting with a bunch of VMs... so yes, I take my words back.
Wow, I wonder about pricing and retail availability...
Miguel
Wow, I wonder about pricing and retail availability...
Miguel
Price is mentioned in the article, it's $167, IIRC. For that price, I'd rather go with a Pentiun G620 - eats more power, yes, but costs only $71.
Actually, that's the price for the E3110 Xeon, not the Pentium 350.
Odd thing, though: the Ark page on the Pentium 350 reveals it to be a 2-core, 4-thread CPU running at 1.2GHz, not 2.2GHz... Very odd... I wonder where's the error: the article, the Ark page, or me (I might have picked up the wrong CPU, though I don't really think so...).
If it's really a 1.2GHz part, then I don't really see the point... Except for high-end x86 routers, low-power NASes (still, potentially worse than Atom, and the 620T might be more powerful), or very light-load servers, it seems more of a gimmick than anything else...
Still, great to know there is decent (when compared to Atom and such) x86 power to be had in that TDP range. Though knowing Intel, being of the Xeon, it probably means it costs as much as a 620T, because of the two extra threads, which is not really very good... But let's see more about that one.
Miguel
Oh, most likely yes. Though I don't know about the power consumption... 15W is way overboard when comparing to an Atom chip...
Miguel
On a dual-core processor with HT...you're not going to be "running come complex hosting with a bunch of VMs"..... You'd only be able to run 1 VM "efficiently"....
AMD's Athlon walked on water compared to the Pentium-3, Pentium-4 and Pentium-D processors....
You're right, probably an article problem, i doubt intel would post the wrong specs to their page.
It looks more powerful than the atom, seeing that atom procs are all 45nm, and Sandy bridge's IPC is awesome. Plus atoms don't have ECC support, or so the Ark page says.
As a side note, i'd love to see what intel does with low-powered ivy bridge procs, i mean how low will they be able to go? their -T series models would probably be 15-25 W...highly efficient, low powered systems excite me for some reason. lol.