Intel's 45nm Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processor technology is incredible of a no-brainer, transporting a supreme mix of high presentation and energy saving aspects. Server vendors contain, reasonably, accepted it with delight, between them Dell, whose 11th generation PowerEdge servers attribute sustain for the novel Intel chips plus a couple of inimitable skin of its own creation.

The novel Dell PowerEdge family is finished up of tower, rack-mount and blade servers, with the 1U PowerEdge R610 we tested under attack at high thickness data centers and branch offices wanting local virtualisation. To this end it can contain two of the innovative Xeon processors plus up to 50 percent more memory than the Dell PowerEdge 1950 it reinstates.

As with other 11th generation servers it's probable to decide more or less any of the innovative dual and quad-core 5500s to fit within the R610, ours shipping with a pair of mid-range Xeon 5520s. Certainly, for a numeral of a dual-processor setup may appear like overkill, but most clientele are probable to opt for this kind of understanding, especially where large amounts of memory are required. That's because the independent memory controllers in every processor, intended to eliminate the frontside bus bottleneck, need both processors to be present in a dual-socket structure in order to hold a full complement of RAM.

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