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Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge-EP Performance Preview with 8 Cores 16 Threads

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:09:29 +0000

Over the past few weeks I have had the chance to play with some 8 core 16 thread Intel Sandy Bridge-EP based Xeon samples which will ultimately be part of the Xeon E5-2600 lineup. I will say that the turbo frequencies seem to be working a little strangely on these chips, but the one I [...] Related posts:

ASUS P9X79 Sandy Bridge-E Motherboard Review Socket LGA 2011

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:27:25 +0000

Today we are looking at the ASUS P9X79 motherboard for Intel’s LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors. It is quite likely that this board gets paired with one of two types of chips, first the Intel Core i7-3930K or a lower-clocked Xeon E5 CPU. As we have covered previously ASUS does a great job of segmenting [...] Related posts:

Supermicro CSE-502L-200B mITX/ mATX 1U Atom Server Chassis Review

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:49:43 +0000

For the Supermciro X7SPE-HF-D525 pfSense appliance I discussed in the linked post I of course wanted a chassis for my appliance and decided to purchase the CSE-502L-200B for just under $70 (see ebay and NewEgg). Oftentimes one does not need a massive chassis for a server. Frankly, with all of the mITX and mATX [...] Related posts:

Supermicro X7SPE-HF-D525 8GB DDR3, IPMI, pfSense, FreeNAS, unRAID, Linux and Power Consumption

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:04:31 +0000

I just wanted to update everyone on the Supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 and X7SPE-HF-D525 review that was posted earlier as I have had a bit more time running the unit, especially as a pfsense appliance. Areas that will be looked at here are a higher-than-spec memory limit (4GB is not the max!), power consumption, and a word [...] Related posts:

ServeTheHome Ratings: An Introduction

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:57:18 +0000

One thing I have been looking at for a long time has been doing formal “awards” or best-buy ratings on things I review. What a lot of even regular readers do not know is that I probably only post reviews of about 1/3 of the product I look at. Frankly, if I would rate something [...] Related posts:

Supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 & X7SPE-HF-D525 Atom Server Motherboard Review

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:10 +0000

The Supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 and Supermicro X7SPE-HF-D525 boards reviewed today are somewhat unique, and let’s face it; fairly expensive Intel Atom based boards. Both boards are centered around an Intel Atom D525 dual core 1.8GHz chip that can handle up to four threads through Hyper-Threading. While an Atom D525 is a fairly standard part, especially when it [...] Related posts:

IBM ServeRAID M1015 Part 4 : Cross flashing to a LSI9211-8i in IT or IR mode

Pieter — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:03:06 +0000

One of the most popular SAS 6.0gbps/ SATA III controllers for enthusiasts is the IBM M1015. In its native form, it is a very capable host bus adapter (HBA) based on the LSI SAS2008 chip. With the low price on places such as ebay (see here for an ebay search for the M1015) and an [...] Related posts:

Intel Pentium G630 65w Dual Core CPU Benchmarks and Review

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:49:45 +0000

I have a fairly strong opinion that Intel’s LGA1155 platform has a stronger set of single processor server motherboards than AMD. I actually hope the new Socket AM3+ based Opteron 3000 series will change this in the near future, but until then at the low end, Intel has the better overall platform (integrated Intel NICs [...] Related posts:

2012, Telecommuting, Video Conferencing: Why do sick people still come to work?

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:55:36 +0000

I arrived to work on the third day of 2012 only to find that half of the people in this vast room with seemingly well over 150 employees and contractors had managed to catch some sort of cold, flu or other reason to keep the coffers of Vick’s and Robitussin filled to the brim. It [...] Related posts:

IBM ServeRAID M1015 Part 3: SMART Passthrough on the LSI 9220-8i

Pieter — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:14:28 +0000