The Intel Xeon E5-2609 v 3 1.9GHZ Six Core Processor enhances the performance & the speed of your system. in addition, the Virtualization Technology enables migration of more environments. It supports enhanced Speed Step technology that allows tradeoffs to be made between performance & power consumption. Its Thermal Monitoring Technologies protect the processor package & the system from thermal failure through several thermal management features. The VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) also known as Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), provides acceleration for memory intensive virtualized applications. The Xeon E5-2609 v 3 1.9GHZ Processor is the ideal choice for virtually all of your data demanding or standard enterprise infrastructure applications.