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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayes Elkins > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [H] 1400-1500 Workstation > > > > > >From: "Chris Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> > >To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]> > >Subject: RE: [H] 1400-1500 Workstation > >Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:00:22 -0600 > > > >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 :\
