There's an edit just after Chad explains that the SC1435 targets a lower price point than the 1950. I hope in the unedited version he goes on to say that there will be opteron based variants of the 1950 and 2950 - as some of us need dual power supplies and extra slots in a 1U or 2U server!

It would also be good if you could clarify whether these new servers will be upgradable to quad core next year when AMD releases quad core socket F processors.

cyber_rigger:

Dell's nSeries line of machines ship with FreeDOS and/or RedHat Linux (Precision Workstations).

http://www.dell.com/nseries

Aitor,

The 1950 and 2950 are very good performing machines and have configurations available with Intel's Xeon (Woodcrest) processors.

As far as quad-core goes. I can't say yes or no. Lionel may be in a position to release such information.

I can confirm it is Socket F (1207)

Lionel, Jim,

Thanks for confirming the future quad core upgrades. It would be great if you produced 1U and 2U opteron servers with dual power supplies and the other features available in the 1950 and 2950. Sure, Woodcrest is faster than Opteron for some applications, but I thought that going quad core on Intel won't be a simple matter of a CPU swap; you'll probably have to change the motherboard too - so I imagine that the Intel quad core servers will be new models. There are also doubts aove whether the Intel FSB is going to be a bottleneck with 4 cores per CPU.

Thanks,

Aitor