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While we were reviewing the Intel Xeon W5580 it was hard to ignore the similarity between the new Xeon and Intel’s desktop Core i7. After a fair amount of testing, it became apparent that the Xeon W5580 is identical to the Core i7 965 Extreme, except that you can run two Xeons on a workstation motherboard and the price is …

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  1. Frank Bough
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    What a bizarre article

    ...leave this kind of thing to Tom's and Anandtech.

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Re: What a bizarre article

    "...leave this kind of thing to Tom's and Anandtech."

    Agreed. For one thing, they do it a bloody sight better.

  3. Paul
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    dual xeon 5520 rocks!

    we bought a Dell 710 for testing with dual L5520 and it makes the dual L5420 systems we previously bought seem slow and power hungry!

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