Intel’s Harpertown Quad-Core servers

Intel presented Yorkfield based Xeons – called Harpertown to the public. This family consists of dual die quad-core CPUs manufactured on a 45 nm process and featuring 1333 MHz to 1600 MHz front-side buses, with TDP rated from 50 W to 150 W depending on the model.

These processors fit in the LGA771 socket. All models feature Intel 64 (Intel’s x86-64 implementation), the XD bit, and Virtualization Technology, as well as the Demand Based Switching, except the E5405, which lacks this feature. The supplementary character in front of the model-number represents the thermal rating: an L depicts an TDP of 50 W, an E depicts 80 W whereas a X is 120 W TDP or above. The speed of 3.00 GHz comes as four models, two models with 80 W TDP two other models with 120 W TDP with 1333 MHz or 1600 MHz front-side bus respectively.

Intel 1600 MHz front-side bus Xeon processors will drop into the Seaburg chipset whereas several mainboards featuring the Intel 5000/5200-chipset are enabled to run the processors with 1333 MHz front-side bus processors. Seaburg features support for dual PCIe 2.0 x16 slots and up to 128 GB of memory.

The fastest Harpertown is the X5492 whose TDP of 150 W is higher than those of the Prescott-based Xeon DP but having twice as many cores. (The X5482 is also sold under the name “Core 2 Extreme QX9775″ for use in the Intel SkullTrail system.)

Espinda.com LLC has chosen Harpertown Quad-Core 5430 as the standard server for shared web hosting, detailed server configuration.

• Posted on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

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