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How incredibly unprofessional to attack other websites. Another reader lost.

The HOCP numbers don't reflect what everyone else is getting. Turning off power saving features makes little sense when testing power consumption in the real world.

I think they have that option because the Dempsey cores do have hyperthreading, but Dell advertises the Woodcrests on the same page as an upgrade. By the way, it's easy to get confused on the matter. I'm sure there will be a handful of people who get a bit bothered when they boot up and find...

Intel has already been kind enough to turn Hyperthreading off for you. Woodcrests don't feature it. Problem solved! :) My guess is that it's due to the architecture's short 14-stage pipeline. If there's a cache miss you haven't lost as much ground (at least compared with the P4s).

Just go to Small Business > Servers > 2 Processors (On left menu) > PowerEdge 2950 and then customize it. Now if only Newegg or Mwave had it in stock... I'll give you twenty bucks and a Geforce3 for your Woodcrest box. :p

Was shopping around tonight looking for Woodcrest availability. I know that the launch date is the 25th, and with it being slightly past midnight I was hoping the Newegg or Monarch Gods would throw a few Woodcrest prices our way. No luck, so I wandered over to Dell thinking that major system...