Dell introduced its two new four-way PowerEdge servers 6800 and 6850 are the high-end business servers specifically designed to support powerful database applications. PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 are the dual-core, quad-socket servers which are expected to reach the market sometime in the next few days will retail at a base price of $3,999 and $4,899 respectively.

The 6800 and 6850 PowerEdge servers are based on Intel’s newest 32-/64-bit Xeon MP processor which is expected to be launched next week and these servers will provide 32% faster performance than its previous four-way offerings. Apart from the 64-bit capabilities through Intel’s EM64T technology, the system also includes features like faster DDR-2 memory, PCI Express I/O technology, hot-plug hard drives, and mirroring.