Intel Xeon W5590 3.33GHz 8M L2 Cache LGA1366 Quad-Core Server Processor

The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series automatically and intelligently adjusts server performance according to your application needs for an up to 9x performance gain over single-core servers¹ at 18 percent less operating power. This enables you to achieve a 9:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing operating costs by up to 90 percent resulting in an estimated 8-month return on a new server investment.

As data centers reach the upper limits of theirpower and cooling capacity, efficiency has becomethe focus of extending the life of existing datacenters and designing new ones. As part of theseefforts, IT needs to refresh existing infrastructure with servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more efficiently. The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically reducing operating costs.

New standard business servers, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and workstations built with this new generation of Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, offer an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically advance the efficiency of IT infrastructure and provide unmatched business capabilities.

Refreshing ROI
Research shows that upgrading to multi-core servers with higher performing, more efficient processors can accelerate data center ROI, saving on power and cooling, space, labor, and software licensing costs. By refreshing IT infrastructure with more energy-efficient systems, you gain capacity to grow and to increase IT performance. The cost savings from energy alone will pay for new servers in about eight months.

With up to 9x the performance compared to installed single-core servers, up to 50 percent lower server idle power compared to the previous generation, and unique virtualization capabilities, Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem lets you deliver more business result