Intel’s V8 Platform Reviewed

Just when you were excited about your QX6800, Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective comes along and stomps on your pride and joy with his Intel V8 system, which consists of dual Quad-Core Xeons running at 3.0GHz alongside 4GB of DDR2-667 FB ram.

When compared to current CPUs on the market, it’s no surprise that the V8 creamed them in every synthetic benchmark. In some cases, the V8 outperformed the 2.93GHz X6800 CPU by more than 4.0x. While the performance results are drool-worthy, the setup is not that affordable. The motherboard alone will set you back a minimum of $600.

The current top of the line Xeon CPU, the X5355 that runs at 2.66 GHz on a 1333 MHz FSB, is selling for just under $1200. If we transpose that price to the upcoming X5365 as the new top-end Xeon processor in that family, then we can assume that it too will fit in at the $1200 price point. That makes the entire system configuration including the processors, motherboard and memory price out at something like $3400. For comparison, you can get a QX6700, an Intel 975XBX2 and 4GB of memory for $1600-1700.

Source: PC Perspective