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HP XW9400 Workstation packs 45nm ‘Shanghai’ CPU with liquid-cooling



Not the best looking workstation out there but beneath the plain HP enclosure hides the new AMD Opteron’s ‘Shanghai’ Quad-core processors with HP first’s liquid cooling technology- a feature that needs no further introduction for PC enthusiast. Now you can get the high performance and well engineered HP professional workstation, water-cooled for much quieter without the heat performance.


HP is offering several of the newer ‘Shanghai’ chips with the xw9400 workstation, including the Opteron 2376 (2.3GHz) to 2384 (2.7GHz), pairs with number of discrete graphics options from Nvidia Quadro professional video cards. The HP xw9400 system-board offers a choice of two Nvidia chip sets, including the nForce Professional 3600 and the nForce Pro 3050. Memory expansion supports up to 8X8GB of DDR2 with storage options available from five SATA hard disk drives that offer up to 5TB of data storage or five SAS drives that offer up to 1.5TB of storage.The HP xw9400 also includes a total of seven PCI slots, including PCIe x16 slots. HP Value Adds: Performance Tuning Framework : HP Performance Tuning Framework (PTF) offers a quick and easy way to configure and update HP Workstations and improve their stability and performance while helping you work faster and more productively. With HP PTF, you can spend more time designing and less time troubleshooting IT with a tool that lets you: Maximize workstation performance Enjoy simpler discovery and communication processes for hardware or technical application problem reporting Some advantages of Shanghai processor on xw9400: The "Barcelona" processor has 2MB of L3 cache. The "Shanghai" processor on the other hand has a much bigger L3 cache of 6MB, enabled in large part due to the shrinkage of the process technology to 45nm used in the "Shanghai" processor. "Shanghai" has a best case latency of 29 CPU clocks, whereas "Barcelona" had a best case latency of 34 CPU clocks. So the lower latency to data stored in L3 cache should also help to significantly boost xw9400 performance.Show s great performance with multi threaded applications ( Sunguard, MonteCarlo). Advantages of Liquid Cooling HP xw9400 Liquid cooling provides an acoustic improvement for Operating and Idle states, as well as a lower pitch tone that blends easily into background noise This is made possible by the removal of the CPU heat sink fans and by implementing a higher air flow chassis fan for liquid cooling.