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Intel® Xeon® Processor 3000 Sequence Performance summary

Built with technologies designed to deliver 24/7 dependability to help businesses improve productivity and performance that automatically adapts to changing workloads at an entry-level price point.

Transition to your first server from your 3+ year old desktop with Intel® Xeon® processor 3400 series

  • More than three times faster than a 2007 based desktop.¹
  • Up to 1.87 times more energy efficient than a 2007 based desktop.²
  • Automatic correction of soft memory errors without rebooting along with expandable memory and networking to keep employees productive as business grows. Provides headroom for business growth with more memory, cost effective memory options, and upgrades.

Refresh your 3+ year old server with Intel® Xeon® processor 3400 series

  • Up to 2.4 times faster than Intel® Xeon® processor 3100 series based servers.³
  • Up to 2.8 times more energy efficient than Intel® Xeon® processor 3100 series based server.Δ
  • Helps improve system responsiveness and system utilization with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.
  • Provides headroom for business growth with four times more memory than previous generation server, cost effective memory options, and upgrades.Δ
 Product and performance data 

¹ Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® Desktop Board DQ45CB with one Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E7200 (2.53 GHz, 3MB L2 cache), 4GB memory (4x1GB DDR2 800), Windows Vista Ultimate* SP1 (64-bit) OS. Score: 34.2 for SPECint_rate_base2006 Source: www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2009q2/cpu2006-20090608-07751.html.

New configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® BIK Beta system with one Intel® Xeon® processor X3470 (quad-core, 2.93 GHz, 8MB L3 cache), EIST enabled, turbo enabled, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology enabled, 8GB memory (4x 2GB DDR3-1333 RDIMM ECC), 146 GB SATA 10000RPM HDD, SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server* 11 for x86_64. Source: Intel internal testing as of August 25, 2009. Score:111 for SPECint_rate_base2006.

² Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® Server Board S3200SHV using Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q8400 (2.66 GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 1,333MHz system bus), 4GB memory (4 x 1,024GB PC2-5300), 4 x 500GB SATA 7,200 RPM, Microsoft Server 2008 Standard* x64 SP1 OS. Source: www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/intel/SMBserver0809.pdf as of August 2009.

New configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® Server Board S3420GP using Intel® Xeon® processor X3450 (2.66 GHz, 8MB L3 cache), 6GB memory (6 x 1,024 PC3-8500R), 4 x 500GB SATA 7,200 RPM, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard* x64 SP1 OS. Source: www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/intel/SMBserver0809.pdf as of August 2009.

³ Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Supermicro* X7SBE system with one Intel® Xeon® processor E3120 (dual-core, 3.16 GHz, 6MB L2 cache), EIST enabled, hardware prefetch enabled, adjacent sector pre-fetch enabled, 8GB memory (4x 2GB DDR2-800 ECC), WDC SE WD1200JS 120G SATA, 7200rpm, SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server* 10 SP2 for x86_64, kernel: 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp. Source: Intel internal testing as of October 2008. Scores: 45.95 for SPECint_rate_base2006.

New configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® BIK Beta system with one Intel® Xeon® processor X3470 (quad-core, 2.93 GHz, 8MB L3 cache), EIST enabled, turbo enabled, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology enabled, 8GB memory (4x 2GB DDR3-1333 RDIMM ECC), 146 GB SATA 10000RPM HDD, SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86_64. Source: Intel internal testing as of August 25, 2009. Scores:111 for SPECint_rate_base2006.

Δ Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Supermicro* X7SBE system with one Intel® Xeon® processor E3120 (dual-core, 3.16 GHz, 6MB L2 cache), EIST enabled, hardware prefetch disabled, adjacent sector pre-fetch disabled, C1E enabled, 8GB memory (4x 2GB DDR2-800 ECC), WDC SE WD1200JS 120G SATA, 7200rpm, Microsoft Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2 OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of August 2008. Scores: 529.

New configuration and score on benchmark: Intel pre-production system with one Intel® Xeon® processor X3470 (2.93 GHz, 8MB L3 cache), HWP and ASP disabled, EIST enabled, turbo disabled, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology enabled, system acoustics and performance configuration CLTT, 4GB memory (2x2GB DDR3-1333), 150GB SATA 10000RPM HDD, Microsoft Windows Sever* 2008 x64-Edition SP2 OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of August 2009. Score: 1502.

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