Will CPUID detect a bensley?
From: "Chris Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [H] 1400-1500 Workstation
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:48:12 -0600
I could believe you had a Dual Core PowerEdge shipped; but they would have
to be Paxville chips, right? Have you done a CPU ID? If they were Bensley
cores, I would be totally shocked.
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> >From: "Chris Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Subject: RE: [H] 1400-1500 Workstation
> >Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:00:22 -0600
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> >Even Intel knows it. The Xeon is way behind in updates, and it's
getting
> >farther behind. Right now, Bensley, the first dual core Xeons, were
> >supposed to be ready to go with boards by the end of this quarter.
Where
> >are they? Nowhere.
>
> Sidenote: I had a Dell PowerEdge 2800 shipped to my office last week
> configured with two 2.8Ghz dual-cores.
>
> Another side note: While my Dell technical contact was very mum about
> this,
> Dell is preparing for something very big going down. theinquirer
believes
> it
> is preparation by Dell to introduce an Opteron PowerEdge line. Too bad I
> had
> to spent the budgeted money by mid december :\
