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Intel Nehalem Xeon X5570 2.93GHz review

Intel's new Nehalem CPU architecture is staggeringly powerful

Our Score 4.5

Last reviewed: 2009-03-31March 31st 2009

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Product Summary

Xeon X5570 (Nehalem)

Intel Nehalem Xeon X5570 2.93GHz

Price at launch

£1,250.00

For

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Awesome memory bandwidth

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QPI function

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Excellent scalability

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Very expensive

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