http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/ Engadget Comments for HP's Shanghai-packing xw9400 workstation available now http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/
That stuff aside, if you try to build one yourself, matching feature for feature and component for component, it gets expensive.

Take the motherboards for example: I have an xw8400 at work which is a pretty similar beast only a generation older and packing Xeons. In addition to two CPU sockets, two x16 slots, some PCI-X slots, and a bunch of SATA ports, it also has a bunch of SAS ports and firewire onboard as well.

A board with all of those features on it isn't terribly easy to come by, and when you find them they aren't cheap.

When you add all that not-very-cheap stuff together, you might get the thing built for less that it would cost from HP, but you aren't going to get a one stop, one guy to call, parts overnighted to you, 3 year warranty in your price, which you will from HP on one of these.

When you want just one, its probably fine to look elsewhere. But when you are going to hand them out to users, having a well built, well supported machine is a good way to go. ]]>Nov 22nd 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/
Copy&Past from a pr email?]]>Nov 22nd 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/
It's stupid.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/
Shanghai are server processors and are far better than the current xeons except Core i7. I think server you mistaking these for desktops. It's okay we understand you stupidity and the whole several different types of wrongness of your graph.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Dec 2nd 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/This is a workstation, NOT a desktop.
Get it right people.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Any chance this ting will have an internal Zip or Ditto?]]>Nov 22nd 2008 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/]]>Nov 23rd 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/It tops out much higher than the given price...and you can get double that amount of memory]]>Nov 22nd 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/
That dual-core Shangai is expensive, and does work you don't do on a regular Phenom, or C2D. Those graphics cards are not the same as a 4870 or 9800GTX.

I'm not that well read on workstation hardware, but at least I know there is a good difference in their hardware. I though more Engadget readers would know this too.

Still cheaper than a Mac Pro.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/
This is a workstation. It's meant to be in professional studios, doing actual work...
Not for playing games... It's for _producing_ games.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Still not a Cray, but damn....


-Configurable- HP xw9400 1050W 80+ Workstation - Configure Your Own Promo - Save $450 Instantly until 1/31/09!
GN848AV-PR1
HP xw9400 1050W 80+ Workstation
Genuine Windows Vista® 64 Business w/downgrade to Windows XP Professional custom installed
HP xw9400 Localization Kit
AMD Opteron™ 2x 2384 2.7 6MB LiqCool CPU
NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 1.5GB PCIe
NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 1.5GB PCIe - 2nd (2nd graphics must be identical to 1st graphics. Supported only w/1050W Base Unit)
NVIDIA SLI Graphics connector (Supported only w/FX3500, FX4600, FX4800 or FX5500. Must have 2 graphics cards)
HP 64GB (8x8GB) DDR2-533 ECC reg for 2 processors (If base unit is not 1050W, then not supported w/(2 fx4600) or (120W Processor plus 2 fx4500 plus 5th HDD).
HP 1000GB SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 7200 1st HDD
HP 1000GB SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 7200 2nd HDD (Primary drive must be SATA)
HP 1000GB SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 7200 3rd HDD (2nd HD must be SATA)
HP 1000GB SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 7200 4th HDD
HP 1000GB SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 7200 5th HDD
LSI 8888ELP 8-port SAS HW RAID Card (Supported only w/RAID5. Not supported w/SATA hard disk drives)
HP 16X DVD+-RW SuperMulti SATA 1st Drive
HP Optical Drive Internal Audio Cable (Cannot order if Optical Device 1 is NO OPTICAL or is SATA. Cannot order w/X-Fi audio card)
HP RAID 0 Data Array Configuration (1st HDD must be SATA. Minimum 3 HDDs/Maximum 5 HDDs. 2nd through 5th HDDs must be identical. 4th HDD cannot be 750GB/1000GB)
Floppy Disk Drive
HP PS/2 Standard keyboard (Cannot mix PS2 and USB keyboards and mice with Linux OS.)
HP PS/2 Optical Scroll mouse
Broadcom 5751 Netxtreme Gigabit PCIe NIC
HP IEEE 1394b FireWire PCI Card
3/3/3 (parts/labor/next business day on-site) limited warranty]]>Nov 22nd 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/when i build these servers, i need a floppy drive to load the raid drivers for server...

still useful.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 22nd 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 23rd 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/hps-shanghai-packing-xw9400-workstation-available-now/Nov 23rd 2008 12:25AM