[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD on Dell PowerEdge 1900

Alex Pilosov alex at pilosoft.com
Thu Oct 18 01:20:14 EDT 2007


On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Isaac Levy wrote:

> These Xeon's eat power something fierce, so they're bloody all over the
> place, fire sale style...  (especially servers).
wrong, that applied to Nocona xeons only. the woodcrests aren't bad. 

nocona were terrible - from 125 to 180W consumption per CPU, woodcrest are 
~65 to 120.

woodcrest = same as core2duo, which is fairly decent as far as power 
consumption




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