Bottom line, the Supermicro X9DRH-7TF is a package that includes top of the line components at what amounts to a 53% discount over buying them separately. If this fits into your overall IT architecture it makes an extremely strong case as a high-performance and high-value platform.
The TP-LINK TL-SG1008D is an inexpensive unmanaged 8-port gigabit Ethernet switch. It clearly focuses on lowering costs which is OK. For $28 it certainly achieves those goals.
Inexpensive Intel Xeon L5639 processors are hitting the market these days. We take a look at where they are coming from and how to get them.
A glimpse into the Intel Data Center vision and new products such as the Intel Atom C2000 family of Avoton and Rangeley SoC applications for the cloud
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors bring most of the performance of the E5-2690 which cost 33% more.
A quick view of where STH is as of July 2013. We touch upon some of the behind-the-scenes items with the site now that it is a little over four years old
Our look at a dual AMD Opteron 4376 HE server and how these processors perform under our Linux benchmark suite
The ASRock Z87M Extreme4 motherboard has excellent onboard features for the price and can easily handle decent overclocks on K series processors
The Intel Xeon E3-1240 V3 is a mid-rangel 4 core 8 thread Haswell Xeon. It has all of the features of higher end LGA1150 Xeons at the lowest price point and is very competitive with previous generations of E3-1200 series processors.
The Supermicro X10SLQ is a business oriented Q87 motherboard that supports vPro and has basically everything one would need for a high-end business desktop