Intel launches six-core Xeon 7400, your bank account shudders

Thanks to Google's Chrome and Microsoft's IE8, discrete processes are the new hotness, and more apps running simultaneously on your desktop is a great excuse to buy a CPU with more cores! On cue, Intel has officially launched its new Xeon 7400 processor, hitting 2.6 GHz on six cores and boasting an advertised 43 percent jump in performance over the lowly quad-core 7300, which had only half the 7400's 16MB of L3 cache. Impressive stuff, especially considering a bonus 10 percent drop in power consumption, but at $2729 for the top of the line model it's not exactly consumer-oriented. Perhaps Intel could interest you in a nice Core i7?

[Frankenstein Black Posted Sep 16th 2008 1:50PM]

and faster (8 cores)?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2008 2:04PM]

Since everyone here seems to be getting confused, here's some info on this cpu:

This is a socket 604 cpu, NOT 775 (which is the standard intel socket for consumer cpu's) or 771 (standard 2way intel server cpu's) which means it will work in 4 cpu motherboards ONLY. This is NOT a desktop cpu and will never ever be in a consumer desktop. Ever.

To everyone who is complaining about the price, please take note that this isn't for your average joe, its only designed for companies that need a massive amount of computing power in a single server. For the rest of us, go get a skulltrail setup and be happy, you will never see this cpu outside of a datacenter.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2008 2:47PM]

What happened to Moore's Law? I was expecting an 8 core to be next, not 6...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2008 9:06PM]

What does this have to do with Moore's Law?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2008 3:29PM]

12 core Mac Pro anyone?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2008 4:16PM]

Pffff just goes to show the difference between a blog written by amateurs and real tech sites. Misinforming the public by complaining this CPU is expensive for consumers just proves the ignorance behind people who write at Engadget and other blogs. If instead of regurgitating the press release your writters actually did some work, a little trip to Intel.com would show you this is NOT a consumer CPU. As someone pointed out before, these CPUs don't even use the same socket as consumer oriented products. Not only that, the Xeon brand has been used for the longest time (probably before many writters here knew what a CPU was) to refer to Intel's server products. The price is high, just like any Intel or AMD CPUs for this market (hint: check the prices on 8-way Phenom CPUs to see it is no a problem with this specific chip). So Engadget writters if you really want to be respected as an information authority, at least check your information before posting, if not you are no better than the average amateur poster from the Web 2.0 era.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2008 8:07PM]

Uhh, dude, it says "not exactly consumer-oriented" right there in the post.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2008 5:55PM]

web-browsing on a single-core is clearly so 2003 and totally unbearably slow!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2008 8:41PM]

6 Core Chip will make a great computer. Hosting servers will charge more money if they decide to use these processors.
http://www.ecompuplus.com

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 1:29PM]

WHAT!!! 6 CORES!! I just got my freaking 4 Core Chip and now they release a SIX core!


$#%@^%#!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2008 11:00AM]

sounds nice im buying it