Tyan was the first to show us specs of their upcoming E5-2400 based server motherboards recently. The LGA1356 platform is the successor to the LGA1366 platform which was the mainstay dual Xeon platform for years. For those that are wondering about the difference between LGA 2011 and LGA 1356 platforms, the LGA 2011 gets quad channel memory while the...
Today we are taking a look at the Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2, which is a new Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 series CPU built on Intel's new 22nm process. Like last year where most of the original E3-1200 series was reviewed, we will be reviewing the vast majority of Intel's Xeon E3 V2 lineup. The Xeon E3-1240 V2 is a...
With the launch of new Ivy Bridge CPUs, the ASUS P8Z77 WS motherboard is a new entry into ASUS' workstation lineup, similar to the P8P67 WS Revolution motherboard released with Sandy Bridge. ASUS targets its WS line as one that combines the ability to overclock normally seen in its high-end mainstream or Republic of Gamers (ROG) boards, with the...
Today we are taking a look at the Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2, which is a new Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 series CPU built on Intel's new 22nm process. Last year, ServeTheHome was the first site to review the Intel Xeon E3-1230 (V1) that was long delayed as there was a delay with the Sandy Bridge Bromolow platform. This year,...
Supermicro has released their information on their Intel Xeon E3-1200 V2 lineup and support for existing motherboards. The Intel Xeon E3-1200 V2 lineup is based on the Ivy Bridge CPU and is built on Intel's 22mm process. We have already looked at the Intel Xeon E3-1200 lineup and the Ivy Bridge Xeon benchmarks will be up on this site...
Ivy Bridge is Intel's 2012 successor to 2011's Sandy Bridge platform. I think platform makes more sense at this point since the CPU now contains not just the compute cores, but also the GPU, PCIe controller and memory controllers. Ivy Bridge's improvements can basically be put into two big buckets. First, Intel has introduced its 22nm architecture which promises...
This week we are taking a look at the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, which is an update to the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus (aka the Hyper 212+) that I recently reviewed. Cooler Master's Hyper 212 line has been very popular because it provides competitive cooling at a very competitive price. The intent of this Cooler Master lineup...
Hot on the heels of the Z9PE-D8 WS first view that Patrick will have a review of shortly, today we are doing a first look of the ASUS P8Z77 WS (which Patrick will also be reviewing soon.) The ASUS P8Z77 WS board is for the more mainstream desktop LGA 1155 based Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge CPU's. This does...
Today we are looking at the StarTech SATSASBAY425 which is a 4-in-1 2.5" drives to 5.25" drive bay hot swap unit great for SSDs. As SSD prices fall, it becomes more likely that users will turn to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 10 arrays to provide extra speed, redundancy and/ or capacity. Personally, I have had at least...
Intel recently launched its Ivy Bridge line of consumer CPUs. As we have seen for the past few generations, Intel generally takes its desktop CPUs, adds ECC support and ensures that all features such as VT-d are enabled, and then launches its Xeon shortly after the desktop part launch. The UP Intel Xeon E3 series, a marketing moniker launched...