The Xeon E-2224 at the bottom of the performance scale has four non-hyperthreaded cores, an L3 cache halved to 8MB, and operates at 3.4 to 4.6GHz. The TDP amounts to 71 watts.

Chip Giant Intel recently launched a range of Xeon processors for entry level workstations called E-2200 that range in price from US$193 to US$539. Wow, that sounds cheap for a Xeon. The top-line part ...