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		ThrowawayR2 on June 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The charm of buying old workstation hardware on th... The last Pentium 4 was released in 2008; the Xeon E5-2667 v2 parts discussed in the article were released in 2013, years after Intel abandoned their Netburst approach.

mixmastamyk on June 5, 2019 [–]

Xeons are usually a generation behind on process and sometimes other technology as well.

ericd on June 6, 2019 | [–]

Be that as it may, that Xeon is post Nehalem, it’s not at all related to Netburst. Netburst was an evolutionary dead end.

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