Michael S (already5chosen@yahoo.com) on 8/5/10 wrote:
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>Nehalem-based quad-core Xeon/2.93 without turboboost? There is no such thing. Assuming
>you are talking about x5570, it has Max Turbo Frequency=3.333 GHz.
>http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37111
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>As to Core2 Xeons, I am not aware of 2.93GHz parts. There are 2.83 GHz, 3.0 GHz, 3.16 GHz and 3.20 GHz.

Here's /proc/cpuinfo for the two machines:

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7220 @ 2.93GHz
stepping : 11
cpu MHz : 2925.866
cache size : 4096 KB

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2926.152
cache size : 8192 KB