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
The new Synology DSM 4.3 Beta adds a host of consumer as well as business features to the Synology NAS platform. Features such as improved iSCSI, SSD TRIM and link aggregation in SHA mode are all new with the beta
A look at what makes the Intel Z87 Q87 Q85 H87 and B85 PCH versions different including some of the market factors influencing decisions.
The Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 is Intel's entry-level 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.
A look at server motherboards from ASRock, ASUS, Intel, Gigabyte, Supermicro and Tyan for the Haswell based Intel Xeon E3-1200 V3 LGA1150 server processors.
Linux benchmarks using a dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 server configuration. We are using the standard STH Linux test suite to evaluate performance
Intel Xeon E3-1270 V3 benchmarks in both Windows and Linux. The CPU is likely the best value Intel Xeon E3 V3 for data centers with reasonable costs