900MHz Xeons Are Hot (Not a Cool Thing)

Last week we heard a rumor from over at The Inquirer that 900MHz Xeons were exhibiting "bad thermal problems." Mike Magee has his ear to the ground for such murmurings and darn if his suspicions weren't right on the money this time. In a story today, The Inq let us know that Intel has officially confirmed that the chips run hot. While Intel says that the problems with the chip only occur on processors with 2MB of L2 cache, justice has been done, and Intel won't be shipping any more of the little devils until August. If you can't wait, Intel will be happy to replace the chips with 700MHz processors. What kind of deal is that?