Background:

I have two Intel Xeon P4 Xeon servers.  The clock speed on both is 2.8GHz.

Problem:

Everything takes an eternity on them.  They're so slow.  And they do nothing but generate heat.

and a quick peek inside Task Manager on this particular machine shows:

Yup.  A massive amount of physical memory (6GB) that is sitting there, waiting to be used.

NetBurst was something that never should have happened.  AMD was around to make them realise that - and now we're being shipped lots of P3 cores on a die.

Meanwhile, I have a significant portion of my infrastructure that is, essentially, useless.  Perhaps it contributes to global warming by wasting lots of electricity, but Intel should have to deal with this.  Take back old P4 and Xeon processors and replace them with a new Core-based Celery or E2XXX series processor or something.

*sigh*  Unnecessary downtime.