General Description:
New Quad-Core Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor-Based Entry-Level Workstations:

Intel's latest 64-bit uni-processor (UP) Workstation platform is based on the new Quad-Core Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor X6700. The breakthrough performance of the new Quad-Core Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor-based workstations make them the best choice for quicker and more accurate financial risk and profit assessments.

Basis for Comparison: The above chart compares measured results as of November 13, 2006 for Uni-Processor Workstation Systems based on x86 architecture.

Financial Services Industry (FSI):
SunGard* Adaptiv* Credit Risk analysis assesses the risk of a company when making financial decisions. The software runs through a series of simulations and is measured in elapsed time converted to simulations / second.

System Configuration Details

SunGard* Adaptiv* Credit Risk analysis company portfolio "D"

Baseline Platform: Hewlett-Packard* xw4300 using Intel® 955X Express Chipset, Intel® Pentium® D processor 960 (3.60 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2x 2 MB L2 cache), 4x1024MB 533MHz non-ECC CL4 DDR2 SDRAM, Microsoft* Windows* Professional SP2, NVIDIA* Quadro* FX1400 PCIe* x16 graphics card driver 84.26. http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/286520-0-0-225-121.html

Dual-Core Platform: Hewlett-Packard* xw4400 using Intel® 975X Express Chipset, Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor X6800 (2.93 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2 cache), 4x1024MB 533MHz non-ECC CL4 DDR2 SDRAM, Microsoft* Windows* Professional SP2, NVIDIA* Quadro* FX4500 PCIe* x16 graphics card driver 84.80. http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/286520-0-0-225-121.html

Quad-Core Platform: Intel internal workstation using Intel® 975X Express Chipset, Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6700 (2.67 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 8 MB L2 cache), 4x1024MB 533MHz ECC CL4 DDR2 SDRAM, Microsoft* Windows* Professional SP2, NVIDIA* Quadro* FX4500 PCIe* x16 graphics card driver 84.80.

Competitive Platform: Sun* Ultra* 40 using 2x AMD Opteron* 256 (3.00 GHz, 1 MB L2), NVIDIA* Quadro* FX4500 PCIe* x16 graphics card driver 84.26, 4GB DDR400 SDRAM, Seagate* 80GB SATA hard drive, Microsoft* Windows* Professional SP2. http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/286520-0-0-225-121.html

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