Thread: Intel Veight Media introduction Platform - double Sockets - double Xeons.

It was at this year's Consumer Electronics demonstrate that we were 1strevealed to an Intel present organization knighted the ' V8' .Intelwouldn't label the organization as a directly response to the QuadFXprogram by AMD, but they did necessitate to emphasize the point thatenthusiasts could accept a double-socket, 8-core Intel powered systemtoday if they became with a workstation platform. At the heart ofthe 'V8' system were two quad-core Xeon CPUs, a double-socketS5000XVN CPU board provided by the Intel 5000X-series chipset, andfour GB of RAM.

No question a powerful organization.But there was just so much Intelcould express in a 'immediate and dirty' demo. To measure the trueability and capacities of the 'V8', we'd accept to benefit untiedaccess to the automobile and put it by its paces on our own terms andwith our own suite of benchmarks. And that's precisely what we'vedone.Armed with a couple of quad-core, 3.0GHz Xeon X5365 CPUs, fourGB worth of Samsung FB-DIMMs, and the very same S5000XVN CPU board,we gathered a totally organization and equated its functioning to adual Athlon 64 FX-74 powered QuadFX rig and a Core two uttermostQX6800 powered organization.





Earlier we demonstrate you how our edition of the 'V8' executed, still, letsaccept approximately time and appear at the single pieces thatconstruct up the system's basis.Downstairs are the characteristicsand specs of the CPU board and CPUs used in this organization, and onthe continuing pages we'll acquire more intimate with the literalhardware.

The Xeon X5365's characteristics and specs appear much similar theQX6800, preserve for a pair of significant details. At the core ofthe processor is the same base architecture utilized in Kentsfieldand Conroe. But with the Xeon X5365, Intel has increased the FSB to1333MHz and cranked the processor frequency to an still 3.0GHz.