Includes a Quad Core Intel dedicated server for $199 per month which includes bandwidth and 24-hour support.

CalPOP.com, a dedicated server provider, on February 17th, 2007, unveiled several new multi-core dedicated servers including a Quad Core Intel dedicated server for only $199 per month which includes unmetered bandwidth and free 24-hour support.

"The Intel Quad core Q6600 CPU is so fast that many tests show it faster even then Xeon Core2Duo Woodcrest servers and Opterons. This makes it an ideal solution for clients with heavy usage who might otherwise need two servers plus a load balancer to handle the same type of loads. Many people are still just figuring out that IDE drives are obsolete, turns out the IDE cable was the bottleneck, something that might not have been noticeable with slower CPUs, but with todays faster CPUs everything else needs faster bus sizes, too, so that you dont have a fast CPU and a slow motherboard or hard drive,"says Lynn Hoover, Co-President of CalPOP.

"That's where SATA came into the picture. And now, the SATA2 drives are basically sending SCSI to the same retirement, because they are faster than SCSI 160 and nearly as fast as SCSI U320 and yet they usually dont require a separate controller card and tend to be less expensive," he added.